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Alrighty, folks.
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Welcome back to another episode, baby, of Live and Five, the Captain Gage, Ozo Osmus.
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As always, Jay Swish reporting live from the guts of beautiful North Scottsdale, Arizona, the last day of May.
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We're heading into June, Ozzo, and you know what that means.
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On Monday, we will be entering the greatest week in sports, as far as I'm concerned.
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Better than Christmas.
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It is better when you get uh just some alone time around Thanksgiving from your family members you don't want to talk to.
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It is the 10th annual North Dakota Sioux golf trip, brother.
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First off, how are we feeling?
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How has your training been leading in and out of camp?
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Are you ready for the hardest three days in sports?
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Am I ready?
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No.
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Um, how's my training been?
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It hasn't been, it's actually probably my worst year training coming up to this event journal, but okay.
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That being said, it's year 10, it's a special year.
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There were doubters who think who thought we'd never make it here.
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Right.
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They thought we never see it to year 10.
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But we're still here, it's a good career.
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It's a hell of a league, as Dale would say.
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I'll be ready.
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I'm not worried about my training regime.
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I'm a veteran now.
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I'm one of those guys, you know.
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I I relax in this the off season.
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Um, but come come training camp and the season when we get there, Jordo.
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Uh I have no doubt I'll find my feet right away.
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Yeah, I'm not worried about you.
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You've always been a highly competitive player that plays in the top of the lineup.
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And I don't think you're truly ever ready.
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You're you really understand what goes into this week.
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But Ozzo, if you're comparing yourself to a modern day hockey player, like at least in my eyes, no matter what you do in the summer, it doesn't really matter.
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Like, for me, you're you're an old school guy where you probably don't even put the skates on until mid-August, maybe even around Labor Day, and you just show up to camp ready to play.
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You're not like a guy that I think gets in your own head or in your own way where the season ends and before the next one even starts, you're on the ice like a week later.
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That doesn't really strike me as your type of make and model.
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No, I like to get away from the game, Jordo.
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I don't want to burn myself out, you know.
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Um, because you know, it sometimes it could be a lot, you know.
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If you if you do it year round, um, you know, the the passion and love for the game can start to slip and it could be a little too much.
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That's why I like to take my off season and rest up, and that's why I feel confident coming in this every year, you know.
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I'm I'm just you know, I'm ready for it.
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I've prepared, I've done what I needed to do.
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And there are things you need to do to prepare for these golf trips, Jordo.
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Um, you've got to put in the time if you do have a loved one, you have to put in the time so you feel comfortable going on this trip.
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Um, and you have to do a lot of things and and schedule it out and you know, fight some of those demons.
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And it does take discipline going there because we're all 30-year-old men now, plus that.
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Um, I'd say we're on the back half of our our you know, our stardom.
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But I still I think we still got it, Jordo.
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I mean, we're a team of veterans, we still got it.
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Yeah, I think there's still a window there for for all the players involved in terms of what we can bring and you know, throw both ways for for three days per se.
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But the thing that always resonates with me, and it's why I think it's the funniest trip in sports, is it's called the golf trip, but we're not even bringing our clubs this year, and that seems to be a theme like many years.
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I think this is the third time in 10 years we've left the wrenches at home per se.
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It might be even the fourth.
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I was trying to add it up because we had a Scottsdale golf trip in there where we didn't bring the clubs.
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I think I maybe we played one time um when we almost lost a member of the crew that I will not um, you know, it's actually gonna remain nameless.
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Is still with us, did not get the invite back to the golf trip for uh unforeseen circumstances.
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But so we had Nashville where we didn't bring the wrenches.
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We've had Chicago where we didn't bring the wrenches.
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I'm trying to figure out if there's any other spots we didn't.
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Do you know off the top of your mind?
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I mean, there's been times we've only played like nine holes of course.
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I think Vegas was like a nine-holder for some guys.
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Yes, Nashville was eight.
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Was there a Scottsdale year in there where like the COVID year do we play?
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That's what I'm trying to think.
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I I still think we played one round that year.
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I think we played run one round, so I think it might be the second or third year where we've left the wrenches at home.
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We've never played more than two rounds, and honestly, the times we have played, we've played somewhere between four and nine holes.
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So um, I mean, I remember Nashville vividly.
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First off, the Nashville golf outing was hilarious.
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The first day we fly in, it's a hundred degrees.
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We play on that Thursday, it was whatever.
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It was actually a pretty fun round.
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Um, for a guy that doesn't play a ton anymore, just due to my schedule, I was out there, I played pretty well.
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The second day we went out there, though, it was so goddamn hot.
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We pulled in to that golf course, which is actually pretty nice.
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And our insanely high and drunk bus driver, Bobby Gregg, who will remain nameless, but did carry a pistol on him.
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Remember, he hammered the side of that stone wall as we were pulling in, like under the underpass of the country club.
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Oh, yeah.
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So he hammered that stone wall with the bus.
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He took out like four or five stones, he dented the whole fucking thing.
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I thought, like, the what do you call that?
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Like, it's not like a underpass, but it's like a a voyeur, or what is it called?
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Like it's where you pull in and it's kind of got an overhang right in front of the clubhouse.
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What's that called?
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I know it.
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I it's it's just slipping my mind right now.
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I hate when that happens, it'll come back to me.
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But yeah, yeah, I think I'm pretty sure Zayno was legit pissed at this guy.
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He was like, Yeah, dude, what are you doing?
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So we're not only were we like an hour late for our tea time, he hammers the stone wall of this overhang of this golf club.
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So now, like the superintendent that's out there, the club pro, they're like, What is going on?
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And and basically the guy came up to us, the the head pro marshal was like, You got to get on the course because you know you're ready an hour late, guys.
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You got four tea times or five blocked off.
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So we go out there, we slatch around our group.
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We end up just leaving the course.
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It was me, Nikki, Kajula, and I forget who else was playing with us, but we're just like, Fuck this, we're done after nine holes.
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Also, I was we got so pinned waiting for you guys.
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I remember, and I would never do this.
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Like, I'm not the most respectful guy in the world, but I think I have some decent manners.
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I was so pinned, man.
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I was smoking darts inside the the clubhouse, and they're like, Sir, you gotta put that out.
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I'm like, Oh fuck, I thought I was on the patio still.
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So that year got out of hand.
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I think that's the hardest I've ever drank was was that year in Nashville.
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That was oh, yeah, insane, dude.
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Oh, that was so hot.
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That course was sick, though.
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Like right along that river.
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Um, there's like a dike on the side of it, like a big hill, sick course, just 110 degrees.
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Fuck.
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And that was that was when I don't I don't know if you know this, but I think you do you remember this.
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That was the last night when you know there was a uh a bag of trail mix in the house.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And we had got we had actually gotten it, acquired it from from someone at the bar, and no one had you know opened it or whatever.
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It was it was already open, but someone had given the boys this bag.
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They're like, hey, like you know, have this trail mix.
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Uh, you know, there might be a little micro dose in there for you.
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We're like, okay, yeah, sure.
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And nobody touched it all week.
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And it was midnight on Sunday night where I go into the trail mix because I was hungry and drunk, and I ended up reaching in there, and my god, was I on fucking Pluto by the time I remember someone looked at me.
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I know who it was, but I'm not gonna say names, and they're like, Did you uh did you just have some of that trail mix?
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I'm like, Oh yeah, they're like, How much uh how much did you take?
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I go, Well, I had a pretty good handful.
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Why?
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What's up?
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Uh they're like, uh, someone gave us to us, and that might have mushrooms in it.
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And oh my god, 30 minutes later, Ozzo, I I was I was hallucinating.
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I was ready 25 drinks deep, and I'm just sitting there, like, holy fuck.
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So that was uh that wasn't perfect.
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That's a hilarious story.
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I remember hearing that.
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I was like, Oh my god, you couldn't have slept the whole night.
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No, I didn't.
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I I went up to our room because you guys were flying out early the next morning, yeah.
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And your golf clubs ended up getting stolen, stolen, still gone, still gone, and we were staying in that section eight housing area of Nashville where they had some like you know, some newer developments, but we were in the hood, and whoever left before you just left the garage wide open, and someone just came in and just stole your club.
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So that was a eventful trip.
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Um, but yeah, man, that was uh we yeah.
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I think we're good on Nashville for a little while after that one.
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I mean 100%.
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We did our damage, it's almost like a Vegas spot, Jordo, where it's fun at once every maybe five, 10 years, you know.
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Yeah, that was when we were at Kid Rock's Honky Tonk, and the entire bar was watching us assholes.
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We were running the entire bar, we were in the middle of the dance floor having the band play thunderstruck on repeat.
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And every time, obviously, when you hear thunder, you take a drink, and the bartenders were in on it, the people that were running the bar back.
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So we were running out of beers like every three minutes, and they just kept running it back, just a tray of Miller lights, and they just plant them in the middle of the floor, and we'd be like, one more time, and the whole bar was in on it.
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That was I like I said, uh because we didn't golf and we just went down to Broadway every day, and that's such a beer drinking whatever drinking.
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You have to drink beer no matter what you're doing.
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It is, it's it's great though, because everyone down there is just they're there to get drunk and have a good time, like it's everyone's there.
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It's like a handshake agreement between everyone.
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We're all here to get a little banged up, drink, hammer some beers, and listen to some good music.
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And that's I mean, that's all you can do, and that's what we did.
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Yes, yeah, and aside from quarterback sneaking myself, uh, with that trail mix, it was it was a hell of a shift.
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Oh my god, thank god I had Dale the next day.
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He wasn't flying out till later, neither was I, because I would have been lost if I was alone.
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That would have been spooky.
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It was spooky enough because I always go on a date early, as is, and I got pinned with Dale the night before.
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Then you guys came in.
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So um I'm looking forward to it, Oswald this year.
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It should be pretty sweet.
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Chicago IL picking up the hats tomorrow.
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We got a Cubs game on the slate, obviously, a meat and cheese night on Thursday, Cubs game Friday, boat Saturday, out Sunday.
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Um, yeah, you gotta you gotta put your time with the with the loved ones uh on the other side of the puck this week.
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Maybe take her out for a nice meal, maybe cook.
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Uh, it's not like you're gonna be doing anything crazy, but uh they know you're gonna be licked uh for the better part of 72 hours, like we said.
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I think they're just at this point, you know, it's like my wife is just she just knows I'm not gonna be fun to be around when I get back.
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So that's like what makes her most mad.
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It's like she'll probably be trying to make me act normal on Sunday when I get back, and it's just you gotta take a few days after that trip.
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Yeah, yeah, you do.
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Uh I'm interested to see uh what lineup shows up.
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It's always funny too, because we have this we've literally had the golf trip group chat for over 10 years now, and to get guys to respond in there is like pulling teeth, and especially nowadays because everyone's so busy with their own lives and kids, it's not as active as it is, but you know, around this time of year, and especially a couple weeks prior, guys start making travel arrangements, they want to know what's going on.
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Uh, Rico and myself kind of set the lineup.
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Azzo, obviously, you've been added to the committee um over the years because Chiswick has stepped down.
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But it's always funny to see who's going to be coming in, what guys are still trying to move a couple different things around the chessboard to maybe sneak in for a night, maybe a little hey, how are you coming in hot on Saturday, or I'll be there Friday, boys?
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Uh, so one name I'm really interested to see.
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Uh, we've added them over the last year is is Dave Hackstall.
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Dane Jackson will be in attendance, but Oswald, do we do we think a guy like Dave Hackstall coming off a sweep and a loss out of the Western Conference finals, does he show face?
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Yeah, that's a great question.
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I would say for a man like Haxdall, I don't know what his you know, his family situation was like, Jordan.
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Like, does he need to see his kids?
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Is he looking to hang out with them and the family, or did he see them throughout the year?
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Maybe, right?
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Um, I would say it's a good, there's a decent chance we see him one night, right?
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I think so.
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Like easy to fly in, easy to fly out, just make one night.
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Um it helps our chances with Jackson being there, of course, because those two are boys.
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Um, but no, obviously you'd love to see Hack there.
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It's awesome that you know Jackson, Simmer and Chiz are coming.
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Um, almost feel like we should invite SMABES to just get those get all the boys there.
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I know.
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But uh yeah, it'll be good to it'll be good to talk shop with those guys.
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Um, I can't wait to see Chizzy talking it up with people out there and and to see what he's like because he I feel like he's getting so big time now.
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I love when I see him, he's just a little more big time than he was last time.
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Yeah, like he's getting to be like that like pissed off GM that's just big time, you know.
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Yes, and uh I don't know.
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I I like that storyline for Chiz.
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Yeah, Chisak is is always a competitor, um always a guy that can funnel the beers with the best of them.
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Always a little pissed off, he's always been that way, he's always been a just an ornery, angry bastard.
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I've lived with him, you know, three years at North Dakota.
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Uh, I know how he operates, so still one of my best friends.
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Yeah, he's he's funny, man.
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He he's uh you don't know if it's a bit or it's actually him, and I think it kind of it obviously shades to who he is, but he plays into the character and he always has.
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He's always been a man that goes against the grain.
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He obviously went to law school, just ask him, and he's willing to argue, and he's willing to take one of your points, even though he might agree in real time with you, he will debate you because that is just who he is.
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He just wants to be angry and he wants to be a little pissed off, and he wants that guy thrives in altercation, doesn't he?
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He really does.
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He's he's looking for it, and yeah, I mean that's what he does.
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It's it's it's fun to be around, but yeah, I mean, all those guys, everyone coming, Jordal.
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Um, it's gonna be a good turnout, you know.
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Yeah, it's 10 years down.
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I know we're missing some guys, but still a damn good turnout for the fellas.
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Yeah, Brock Besser, obviously in the mix.
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Uh, he always best is like I love best, but best is like the guy, he's like the girl that just wants to feel wanted.
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Like you he needs reassurance to to tell him how cool he is and why I want him on the trip, and then he books his stuff, right?
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He's not like a guy that's just like all in.
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He's like, should I come?
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Like, obviously, Brock, and if you're listening to this, of course you should come.
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But why, as a man that's almost 40 years old, do I need to beg you to come?
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Do I need to tell you how hot you look, how good your hair is, how many goals you scored, how you can do this, that.
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I don't why do I need to give you reassurance when you should just fucking come on the on the trip?
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Just book your ticket, man.
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Don't ask, you don't need me to tell you to come.
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Like, I don't need to be texting you saying, Hey, book the ticket, let's go.
00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:49.279
Like, just book it, be all in.
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Like, you didn't you didn't go to the world championship, just book the ticket.
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We know you probably have some friends' cousin's birthday party that you're missing, and we do appreciate you for missing that.
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But just book the damn ticket, best.
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All right, 100%.
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Yeah, and and thank you because we we will need your wallet later in the week.
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Troy Stetcher back in the mix, huge, spin off for the last two or three years, obviously playing in the Stanley Cup finals.
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That'll be sick to have Stetchy back in the mix.
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Thompson sounds like he's out, maybe could be a push.
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But Ozzo, I'm not worried about anyone else, I'm worried about my own game, and that's how everyone should think.
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But last year for me wasn't perfect, and I'll be the first one to admit that.
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I came in hot after right after the baseball trip, which was like a six or seven day runner.
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Spent a couple odd days in Tampa Bay waiting for you boys, had to drive from Atlanta all the way back down to Tampa Bay.
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And by the time I got through Ocala, Florida, and almost got tased and my ear bitten off by this crackhead inside of a 7-Eleven.
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Man, did I hit the wall?
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Oh man, it was bad.
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So I came in, I had a sore throat, which ended up turning into strep throat.
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I got on antibiotics.
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I that developed into an ear infection, and then from there, I almost went down with like I don't know if it was it wasn't pneumonia, but it it was the ear infection, the strep throat, and my body just completely shut down.
00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:19.519
And I was boozing like hard, obviously, yeah, on the antibiotics.
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I just felt weird the entire time.
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I had no voice.
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Man, so for me, that really humbled me.
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It it told me at 31 years old, you probably shouldn't do an 11 out of 14.
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So this year I've managed my game, I've used load management, but I've still played a few.
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I've I've gotten some reps in the last weeks, but I definitely feel better going into this year, hopefully.
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Uh with good health because man, it's not only was I battling all that, but then when you want to get in on the conversations and you have no voice, it's just miserable.
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Oh, that's the biggest battle I was gonna say, especially for a guy like me who has one of these whisper voices, so it doesn't take much for me to lose that voice.
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And Dusky loses his because he's screaming all night.
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Like I lose mine because yes, I am talking a lot, but I just have a soft voice and it goes easy.
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You gotta keep your voice for as long as you can, Jordan, because as soon as you can't hop in on the jokes and get in on that campfire when you're fucking when everyone's spitting game and you're all just dying laughing.
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If you can't step in on that and you've got some just voice that no one can hear, it's it's brutal.
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Yeah, and you know, I let alone I can't order a drink as a single guy.
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I can't even have a conversation if I need to do that.
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It's just brutal.
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And then the the worst part is when you're sitting in the hot stove late at night when all the fellas are just gathered up or early in the morning talking about the stung events that occurred.
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You're sitting there with with just nothing to give, which was it humbled me a lot.
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I was like, damn, this sucks.
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I'm just sitting here, I feel like a piece of shit.
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Obviously, I'm never gonna go home early, but I'm battling a lot right now for you boys.
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Um, I'm in the trenches, so yeah, we'll see, man.
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Um, I was definitely humbled last year, so it's uh I'm I'm ready to push, and that's what year 10 is about.
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So I can't wait to get there.
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I'm going in.
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I think I'm gonna go in Wednesday night because I don't wanna because it kills a whole day if I fly from here to Chicago.
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I don't I wouldn't get in till later unless I left real early.
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So I think uh I think as a pro I I might go in the night early.
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So Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday night.
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I'm thinking Wednesday night, yeah.
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Get in late, might have to.
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Yeah.
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Just go to the hotel room though.
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Don't go check out a few spots.
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No, no, no, no, no.
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I would I would just maybe just check out like a couple spots.
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Yeah, maybe dinner with my sister, shut it down, have six, go to bed, see see what's up.
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That city's, I mean, it's gonna be great.
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This is there's no better time to go into the guts of Chi Town than I can't wait to get back there.
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Yeah, so many options.
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Like, we don't even we don't know where we're gonna end up, right?
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Like, it's just kind of yeah, no, we don't.
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I'm interested to see how the houses because Rico always books the house, or the I guess this year, the Penter.
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I'm interested.
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It looks pretty sick on paper, but you never know.
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I love when the boys always give them shit.
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You know, Chiswick's gonna come and just bitch in this place.
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Sucks.
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I can't believe I paid this much for that.
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Are you fucking kidding me?
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I'm not paying you.
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Chiswick's gonna be rattled.
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Oh, yeah, he is gonna come in there just so negative.
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It's gonna be hilarious.
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It's nice and done, Dusky.
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You fucking idiot.
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Oh, dude.
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Yeah, it's gonna be great.
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All the boys under one roof.
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I think that's the best part of the trip.
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Uh, it's it's the best trip, I think, in sports.
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So looking forward to it, Azzo.
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Can't wait.
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Fella.
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But we got the Stanley Cup playoffs starting up here, my friend.
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Sorry, the Stanley Cup final, not the playoffs, but we got the we got the finals Tuesday going off the guts.
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What are we thinking in this series?
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Obviously, Vegas, Carolina.
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I just saw Carolina play half licked up in Montreal.
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They look really good.
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But if you're looking at this series and you're a betting man uh with your own chin, who are you looking at here?
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Fala, and what are some of the keys from both sides?
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Yeah, no, uh honestly, uh I kind of like the series.
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I I think it's exciting coming in.
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I mean, what is Carolina, Jordo?
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Like 12 and 1, 12 and 1.
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And Vegas is like 12 and 4.
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So you got two, I mean, hot teams they haven't lost in a while coming in.
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You'd like to think it's gonna be a great series, Jordo, and and Carolina gets over this hump of the Eastern Conference Finals, and you you like to think maybe maybe this is their chance.
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Um, but when you look at this, I just I just think you gotta go eye test.
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And when you watch these games, Jordo, it's just it's tough to think Carolina's gonna pull this off, right?
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Like you they I know they're really good, they have a really good decor, they're big on the back end, they're they're quick up front, they play a smart game.
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Um I just think with this Vegas team.
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And what they have, how they've been playing, and their goaltender.
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Like Carter Hart over Frederick Anderson for sure, right?
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Like, I think you have to say that.
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Like, like Carolina really, he hasn't Frederick Anderson hasn't really had to save them any games.
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You know, like Carter Hart's playing out of his mind right now.
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That guy's story, too.
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I know he's controversial, Jordo, but that guy's story.
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I mean, this guy got drugged through the mud.
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He's innocent.
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He was not guilty, people.
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So I don't know why everyone's so pissed off of him.
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He's in the NHL for a reason.
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Obviously, he was allowed to play.
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He went through hell and back.
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And now he's, I mean, I would say if he didn't go through that, I mean, he's probably the front runner for the con Smythe.
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I know everyone's saying that, but it's like, fuck, that would suck to go through what he went through, and people still hate him.
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But I think they've got that on like obviously, if you're a guy like Carter Hart, you're playing with that in your mind.
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Like, you got a little fire to your game, like, fuck these people, you know.
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And you got that on your side.
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I just think I would take him over Frederick Anderson.
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And I just, I mean, you never know, right?
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Like, like we just said, Carolina's 12-1, but I just think that's the difference there.
00:23:13.759 --> 00:23:21.839
And I just don't see Carolina's game matching up with Vegas very well because Vegas plays that hard, heavy, old school dump it in.
00:23:22.319 --> 00:23:22.799
Yeah.
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And they got skill.
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Like Eichel and Marner, and fuck, they're just a scary lineup.
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And Eichel is so good.
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Like Carolina's played some good teams, but they haven't played a center iceman like Jack Eichel on the other side.
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And he's gonna shut down an entire line.
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He's definitely gonna lock up whoever he's playing against.
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I'm I'm sure that's gonna be Aho.
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Like, that's such a mismatch there with Jack Eichel and how he defends and how good I think he's probably if they're not I if Vegas ends up winning just because of the media and everything and the attention, they're not gonna give the con Smitty to Carter Hurt, even though he deserves it and he should be.
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That's just how the left-wing media operates, and they probably don't want to cause even further distraction.
00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:09.039
So uh I would lean towards I mean, Mitchie Marner, Greedy Marner's been incredible too.
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I mean, let's not it's him or it's him or Eichel if Vegas wins, but Eichel has been so good.
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I mean, the way he can lock up the other team's opposition, like in that game four at the end of the game.
00:24:21.039 --> 00:24:23.759
Did you see when McKinnon they had the puck?
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It was either they were down one or Vegas had just scored an empty net.
00:24:27.839 --> 00:24:29.839
I'm pretty sure they were just down one, though.
00:24:30.079 --> 00:24:40.319
And Vegas was in the defensive zone, and McKinnon was doing like 19 different cutbacks, and he was trying to get away from Jack Eichel, and he he just bodied him in the wall, like his feet were quiet.
00:24:40.480 --> 00:24:47.039
He let McKinnon come to him, and then when he saw an opportunity where the puck was a little bit exposed, he went stick on stick, closed him off.
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The puck gets chipped out of the zone, they're able to change, and then the game is basically over.
00:24:52.079 --> 00:24:53.839
It's amazing how good he is.
00:24:53.920 --> 00:25:03.119
And I remember even talking to Nikki, my brother, after that series against Vegas, and he was just saying, I don't know what ICL is on, but the guy never gets tired, Ozzo.
00:25:03.519 --> 00:25:05.200
No, he's a he's a freak of nature.
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I mean, he always has been when he was 17 years old.
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He was like the youngest guy in the 17 team, and he came up and played with us, Giordo.
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And he comes up, and we'd been working out for two full, you know, two years every day, every fucking day at the program.
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Like, it's the strongest you ever are.
00:25:20.720 --> 00:25:29.839
And this kid comes in, and I think he was like third strongest guy on our team in terms of like power, he was power cleaning like 325 at 17 years old.
00:25:29.920 --> 00:25:32.960
He's a freak of nature, like he's he's insane.
00:25:33.039 --> 00:25:39.680
His his body knows all I mean, he did work hard, obviously, but it was just you know, he's got good genetics, of course, too.
00:25:39.759 --> 00:25:48.319
Like, he's quick out there, he's a big body, but he can skate like the wind, he can he can hang with any of those players, McKinnon, McDavid, any of those guys.
00:25:48.400 --> 00:25:56.559
He's just as fast as and yeah, I mean, I really like the player he's he's he's coming into and um that he's turning into.
00:25:56.720 --> 00:25:59.920
And I don't know, it's he's unbelievable to watch.
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It's it's crazy.
00:26:01.200 --> 00:26:02.480
Um I don't know.
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You used to think like AM34 was better than Eichel, but now it's like I don't know.
00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:09.279
I mean Eichel might be number one C.
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I mean, you even look at Jack Eichel in the 2015 entry-level draft.
00:26:13.359 --> 00:26:25.279
I throw out a tweet last week, and I wasn't saying that he should have been picked over Connor McDavid by any means, but of course that's how people took it in context because it's Twitter and everyone, including myself, is retarded.
00:26:25.519 --> 00:26:28.559
But the thing was, Ozzo, is Jack Eichel.
00:26:28.720 --> 00:26:35.599
All I was saying, and I said it in the tweet, Jack Eichel is a better two-way player than Connor McDavid.
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He really is, at least on at least on the defensive side, he is a better player than Connor McDavid.
00:26:42.720 --> 00:26:44.640
Now, can he do the things McDavid does?
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Does he have the same game-breaking ability?
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Probably not.
00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:51.519
He's probably better on the power play, McDavid, of course.
00:26:51.599 --> 00:26:56.640
He's obviously got the extra gear, even though I at Eichel at top speed, they're probably pretty similar.
00:26:56.799 --> 00:26:58.960
But I would say fast twitch just off the blocks.
00:26:59.039 --> 00:27:03.519
McDavid does have that little bit more of a get up and go in terms of being a Clydesdale.
00:27:03.759 --> 00:27:10.640
But all I'm saying, Ozo, is if you look at two-way players, it's way closer than you think.
00:27:10.799 --> 00:27:15.519
And Eichel is definitely better on the defensive side than Connor McDavid.
00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:16.720
For sure he is.
00:27:16.960 --> 00:27:20.400
For sure he is, and then also, like, I don't know, Jordo.
00:27:20.559 --> 00:27:23.920
You you think about this series, I'm sure I don't know if you feel the same.
00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:31.839
Like, if you're thinking Vegas is kind of the favorite coming into this one, but did care did did Colorado look terrible?
00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:36.160
Where were that was that the same team I watched kind of dust up the wild?
00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:42.400
Is Vegas that good, or was like so where Vegas got what happened?
00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:53.119
So where Vegas got so much better as every round went, they played against the Utah Mammoth, who the Utah Mammoth, say what you want about their team and their little bit of lack of experience.
00:27:53.359 --> 00:27:55.519
The fastest team out of the West this year.
00:27:55.680 --> 00:28:08.000
They really were the way they moved the puck, the way they had guys that could fly down the walls, the Gunthers, the Nikki Schmaltzes, the Kellers, the Cooleys, like they have some of the most elite skaters in their top nine.
00:28:08.079 --> 00:28:20.720
So the way that Vegas was able to manage that speed and then obviously played another quick young team like the Ducks, I think that really set in themselves and the self-belief that they can skate with the top teams in the West.
00:28:21.039 --> 00:28:33.119
And if you look at Vegas and the biggest difference between John Tortofella and Butch Cassidy, obviously the the change in the room of the voice, of course, but the neutral zone of the Vegas Knights has been incredible.
00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:40.640
Like you, if you saw that series, Martin Natius and when McKinnon was healthy, both those guys couldn't gallop through the neutral zone against him.
00:28:40.720 --> 00:28:42.000
There was no fucking space.
00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:48.880
So I think that's the biggest thing is when Colorado ran into Vegas, they just ran into a buzzsaw.
00:28:48.960 --> 00:28:58.240
They they had never seen a team up until that point play the neutral zone like the Vegas Golden Knights, and that I think is going to be the biggest difference in the cup final as well.
00:28:58.480 --> 00:29:04.640
But then it doesn't help, obviously, that Cale McCarr was hurt for the first two games, playing at 40% for the last two.
00:29:04.799 --> 00:29:10.720
McKinnon gets hurt in game three, plays half the game, and then the other guys, their role players and their side pieces didn't step up.
00:29:10.880 --> 00:29:15.920
Brock Nelson had an incredible year, but if you were asking even B Nelly, he'd be like, Ah, I wasn't great.
00:29:16.079 --> 00:29:17.839
And Val Nikushkin, he was hurt.
00:29:17.920 --> 00:29:26.720
So I just think it was they ran into a buzzsaw and they run out of gas, and they were hurt and they got swept, which is and it was over before they even knew it.
00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:29.039
I know it was it was just done.
00:29:29.599 --> 00:29:33.359
They were done for so quick, it was it was crazy to watch.
00:29:33.440 --> 00:29:34.880
Like it wasn't even close, Jordan.
00:29:35.119 --> 00:29:37.680
I mean, uh, it was in terms of these playoffs.
00:29:37.759 --> 00:29:42.000
Like, you look at these both these teams that are in the finals, the 12-1, 12 and 4.
00:29:42.079 --> 00:29:45.599
I mean, they fucking dummied everyone in the playoffs, it wasn't even close.
00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:47.839
Yeah, so why did that happen?
00:29:48.079 --> 00:29:53.200
Because this was a pretty close year in terms of all the teams were right among each other.
00:29:53.279 --> 00:29:55.599
There wasn't like a clear cut, oh, this team's the best.
00:29:55.680 --> 00:29:57.680
I guess Colorado was, yeah.
00:29:58.079 --> 00:30:03.680
They just got dusted up by the Vegas Golden Knights, who at one point were worried about missing the playoffs.
00:30:04.319 --> 00:30:08.400
Yeah, I mean, the team you're talking about a team that fired their coach with eight games left.
00:30:08.720 --> 00:30:16.880
There was that was a team that I went and watched in late March, and they played the Edmonton Oilers, and they look flat, they look stale, they didn't look good.
00:30:17.039 --> 00:30:19.200
I was like, is this team even gonna make the playoffs?
00:30:19.279 --> 00:30:25.279
I thought they were gonna make it, but I was like, they might be out in the first round, depending on who they play, and they just continually got better.
00:30:25.519 --> 00:30:30.799
And then you just see even Mark Stone playing probably under 70.
00:30:31.359 --> 00:30:32.720
You just realize how good he is.
00:30:32.799 --> 00:30:37.680
I mean, on that goal with teenage mutant ninja hurdle, just to put it in space.
00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:43.680
If I was a forward or even a defenseman, it's just be so fun to be on the ice with him.
00:30:43.759 --> 00:30:53.279
He just puts the puck in the best possible spots for you to skate underneath it with speed, the little bump plays, the way he can just get it off the wall and get it into the middle of the ice.
00:30:53.599 --> 00:31:01.119
Man, if that guy had half a back, not even a full back, we're talking about a half rack of a baby back rib.
00:31:01.359 --> 00:31:05.920
This guy would already have a thousand points, and he and he's pretty goddamn close.
00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:06.640
For sure.
00:31:06.720 --> 00:31:08.000
He's so fun to watch out there.
00:31:08.079 --> 00:31:08.799
He's like that.
00:31:08.880 --> 00:31:22.079
Uh it's like when you're playing, say you're in like Banham or high school, Jordo, and and you get like an old guy, old guy out there that used to play pro and he can't really skate anymore, but he's still fucking way better than everyone else out there.
00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:26.480
Yeah, because he's making those right plays, knows where to be, sticks in the right position.
00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:30.000
He can make those little um area passes.
00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:33.519
Um, that's exactly what Markstone looks like right now.
00:31:33.599 --> 00:31:38.480
He's just that old veteran out there that can't skate, but he's just smarter than every fucking guy on the ice.
00:31:38.720 --> 00:31:46.079
Yeah, that reminds me that Tony Hercus still skates in Madison at the pro skates, and he is the Markstone of those skates.
00:31:46.720 --> 00:31:52.400
There's always that guy putting the puck in the best areas possible, can't really move up and down the ice.
00:31:52.559 --> 00:31:56.319
Still, after the end of the scrimmage, you're playing five on five.
00:31:56.400 --> 00:31:59.359
Herc got one and three, and he won five two.
00:31:59.599 --> 00:32:03.920
Like he's just still butter out there, so that's that's a great comparison for sure.
00:32:04.160 --> 00:32:09.359
Yeah, yeah, he's fun to watch, and he just looks like I mean, he stoner's not even that old.
00:32:09.440 --> 00:32:09.920
What is he?
00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:11.279
Like 33, 34.
00:32:11.440 --> 00:32:12.480
Yeah, he's a 92.
00:32:12.559 --> 00:32:13.039
Yep.
00:32:13.839 --> 00:32:19.039
And it's he just looks like a caveman out there, just a hockey player through and through.
00:32:19.119 --> 00:32:23.279
Like, that's a guy you're gonna win some playoff hockey games with.
00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:26.480
Like, they just always have that look when he takes his bucket off.
00:32:26.559 --> 00:32:29.359
He's got like a little bald spot up top, but he's still got long hair.
00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:31.440
It's like fucking right, Stoner.
00:32:31.680 --> 00:32:32.000
Fuck it.
00:32:32.400 --> 00:32:34.799
Yeah, he's and he's not worried about that bald spot either.
00:32:34.880 --> 00:32:39.279
Well, when the cames off doesn't a lot of guys would be very self-conscious about it.
00:32:39.519 --> 00:32:44.000
Maybe guys would even be sliding over the pond to get that job done in Turkey, but he just embraces it.
00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:50.000
He'll sit in the penalty box with his dome piece off for two minutes, and he's not even he knows it's there, he's wearing it with pride.
00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:51.839
He's like, Fuck you guys do this thing.
00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:54.720
Most guys would be looking at you know, Garrett Rank or Wes McClay.
00:32:54.880 --> 00:32:56.880
Hey, fella, fella, get me my fucking bucket, you know.
00:32:56.960 --> 00:32:58.319
It's a little insecure here.
00:32:58.400 --> 00:33:00.079
No, he's just fucking rocket, he doesn't give a shit.
00:33:00.160 --> 00:33:01.920
He's got a little cul-de-sac on the top.
00:33:02.079 --> 00:33:04.480
Yeah, it's it's uh it's cool to see.
00:33:04.559 --> 00:33:06.240
He's just a hockey player through and through.
00:33:06.319 --> 00:33:09.759
But also on the other side, the Carolina Hurricanes, man.
00:33:10.079 --> 00:33:15.039
This team, I know they're a bunch of nerds, but they're a really good cohesive group.
00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:21.359
And when I saw them play game four in Montreal, that was the best display.
00:33:21.599 --> 00:33:28.000
And I know Montreal was tired, they ran out of gas, but that was the best display of wall work I've ever seen.
00:33:28.319 --> 00:33:35.920
Montreal was almost trying to play like Carolina does really aggressive, pinch off the walls, take away the middle, you know, from the outside.
00:33:36.160 --> 00:33:48.079
But the way that the wingers were just getting the puck off the walls, making no-look plays out of their own end, like to the far dot, even to the near side dot with their forwards, their winger or center slashing across.
00:33:48.160 --> 00:33:57.119
I mean, it was no-look play after no-look play, right on the tape, even in the neutral zone when you know Montreal was overcommitting and getting outside the dots.
00:33:57.200 --> 00:33:58.319
It was right into the middle of the ice.
00:33:58.400 --> 00:34:02.319
It was odd man rush after odd man rush, Blake, Stankhoven, Hall.
00:34:02.400 --> 00:34:04.960
You forget how many good players they've added over the years, too.
00:34:05.039 --> 00:34:07.200
Like Nikolai Ehlers is nasty, man.
00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:19.840
He's nasty, and that you know takes a lot of pressure off a guy like Svechnikov or some of these guys that you know played higher up in the lineup before, but now they can kind of relax a little bit and they just have that depth.
00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:33.599
And this team, man, I don't know if they have the juice and the mojo to get it done against a team like Vegas, but in terms of just a cohesive group, I've never seen a team snap it like that that late in playoffs.
00:34:33.760 --> 00:34:34.800
It was clinical, man.
00:34:34.960 --> 00:34:36.239
Montreal had no answer.
00:34:36.400 --> 00:34:42.639
Their course that game, they probably spent 10 10% of the game in Carolina's defensive zone.
00:34:42.719 --> 00:34:49.039
Like Montreal was never on the attack, it was they silenced the entire building, they were just on their heels the entire time.
00:34:49.360 --> 00:34:50.719
It was like almost sad to watch.
00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:52.000
You're like a Montreal fan.
00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:52.800
You're like, I know.
00:34:53.440 --> 00:35:00.639
It's never a good sign when the the Bell Center, the loudest cheer of the night, is on a three-on-five penalty kill because you get you've iced the puck.
00:35:00.719 --> 00:35:04.639
Like it's just that's never good if that's the biggest cheer at the Bell Center.
00:35:05.119 --> 00:35:06.400
Yeah, yeah.
00:35:06.559 --> 00:35:13.599
I mean, and and I mean, good for Montreal, they had a good season, but boy, did they get us exposed at the end of it.
00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:17.679
I I I know they ran out of gas, but yeah, they got exposed.
00:35:17.840 --> 00:35:20.239
Uh what did you think about Lane Hudson in the end of that?
00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:31.519
Because wasn't wasn't Mike Matheson kind of playing more minutes than Lane Hudson at the end of this series, and I don't know if Lane Hudson was injured, he was just kind of he might have been breaking down a little bit.
00:35:31.760 --> 00:35:41.840
I think he was breaking down, I think, and especially the way he plays too, Ozzo, when you're up and down the sheet and you're east west, board to board, goal line to goal line.
00:35:42.079 --> 00:35:43.840
I mean, that takes a lot out of you.
00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:52.320
And when you're playing with that big of a motor, and especially later in that series too, when he was trying to force it a little bit to get his team back, you know, you're trying to do too much.
00:35:52.400 --> 00:35:54.159
You're you're trying to go every shift.
00:35:54.239 --> 00:36:02.480
I mean, even like a guy like Daryl Sador once told me when he was coaching me in the Chicago Wolves, he looked at me, he's like, Schmaltz, you can't go every shift.
00:36:02.639 --> 00:36:06.480
And what he meant by that is you can't lug the mail every shift and try to go end to end.
00:36:06.559 --> 00:36:08.639
You're you're gonna run out of steam, you have to pick your spots.
00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:11.360
So that's where I think Lane Hudson ran out of gas.
00:36:11.840 --> 00:36:19.199
So he was doing too much because he cares so much and wanted his team to get over the hump of the beast of Carolina.
00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:25.280
He physically just ran out of steam, and Mike Matheson was more of a obviously a calming presence.
00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:30.480
He's always played a steady two-way game, leaning towards the defensive side, less movement out there.
00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:39.119
So, yeah, to answer your question in a in a long form, I I simply just think he ran out of 87 on Letted, my friend, and that was kind of it.
00:36:39.360 --> 00:36:41.119
Yeah, that's kind of what I saw too.
00:36:41.199 --> 00:36:43.119
A little bit like Quinn Hughes does sometimes.
00:36:43.199 --> 00:36:47.920
It's like, yeah, you gotta give these guys rest sometimes, or else they're gonna break down.
00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:52.960
Like they're not robots, they're and and when they're playing that much regular season, too.
00:36:53.039 --> 00:36:55.679
It's like fuck, not gonna go through playoffs.
00:36:55.920 --> 00:36:57.679
There's just gotta be a happy medium there.
00:36:57.760 --> 00:37:01.920
And then I mean, who would have seen too to go back to the Carolina Hurricanes, Drodo?
00:37:02.159 --> 00:37:03.119
Who would have seen?
00:37:03.199 --> 00:37:14.880
Because I always look, I don't know about you, but after every game, I just I like checking time on ice just to see who like leads who who's the coach thrown out to the most, you know, who leads time on ice.
00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:22.639
That probably means you know, this guy played the best, and throughout these playoffs, Carolina's been playing Keandra Miller.
00:37:23.119 --> 00:37:25.360
That's their that's their that's their top D.
00:37:25.679 --> 00:37:26.719
That's their top D right now.
00:37:26.800 --> 00:37:30.239
And they got Jacob Slavin on the team, both Americans.
00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:36.400
Jacob Slavin's the Olympian, but it certainly seems like Keandra Miller's their number one defenseman right now.
00:37:36.639 --> 00:37:38.320
Yeah, he he certainly is.
00:37:38.480 --> 00:37:45.199
He's I mean, the and now he's starting to reap the the mainstream wave of it's always funny, Oslo.
00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:47.760
Like the guy's played really well all playoff.
00:37:47.840 --> 00:37:51.039
He's actually had a really sneaky good year, too, in the regular season.
00:37:51.119 --> 00:38:06.320
But isn't it always funny when one person in the media in the at this time it was Wayne Gretzky, 99, said how good Keandre Miller's been in this series in all playoffs, and then they obviously hear 99 say that, and then everyone jumps on the Keandre Miller train.
00:38:06.480 --> 00:38:10.960
Like he's been here the whole time, he's been a really good defenseman throughout the playoffs.
00:38:11.039 --> 00:38:14.400
He's been, like you said and alluded to, their number one defenseman.
00:38:14.480 --> 00:38:30.320
I just always think it's so funny when media really didn't give him any recognition for the first two and a half rounds, and then a guy like Wayne Gretzky, probably the greatest player of all time, says something, and then it's like they're on their knees just sucking Keandre Miller's bench.
00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:34.480
So it's like, yeah, I I get it, but he's been great.
00:38:34.559 --> 00:38:41.920
And the thing is, also, too, if you look at you speaking about Carolina and their minutes, none of their defensemen play over like 22 a night, they're like 20, 21.
00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:43.840
Like that's they're all right around that, yeah.
00:38:44.079 --> 00:38:45.760
And they're all fresh, you know.
00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:50.159
They're all fresh, none of them look tired or bagged out there or worn down.
00:38:50.400 --> 00:38:52.800
They all look fresh, they all look good.
00:38:53.039 --> 00:38:55.119
So that's certainly gonna help coming into this.
00:38:55.199 --> 00:38:58.480
I just don't think Vegas is that beat down either.
00:38:58.639 --> 00:39:00.639
Like, like, how good has Gossip Spear been?
00:39:00.960 --> 00:39:02.079
Oh, unbelievable.
00:39:02.159 --> 00:39:03.840
It's like this guy's still doing it.
00:39:04.079 --> 00:39:05.440
He's also got his buddy.
00:39:05.599 --> 00:39:07.039
No, they that was a different team.
00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:08.559
Um, Mark Jankowski.
00:39:08.719 --> 00:39:12.559
He played for Providence, I think, won the national championship after got a spear.
00:39:12.719 --> 00:39:13.039
Yep.
00:39:13.199 --> 00:39:15.119
Um, he's been playing well too.
00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:16.400
I mean, out of nowhere.
00:39:16.480 --> 00:39:22.320
Like, he was he I remember watching that kid when he got out of college, I don't know, 10 years ago.
00:39:22.480 --> 00:39:25.599
I was like, Oh, he's probably gonna be in the American League pretty soon.
00:39:25.840 --> 00:39:30.719
Yeah, I mean he was a first-round pick the same year I was like two or three slots before me.
00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:37.760
And I remember at the draft, there were like the the insiders and the experts were like, Oh, this kid's a little bit of a stretch, he's coming out of Montreal.
00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:44.639
He played prep school, and then he goes obviously to Calgary, works his way up through the minor leagues, has a pretty good run there.
00:39:44.719 --> 00:39:54.239
And then Oswald, like two years ago, he was in Milwaukee, he was playing in the jungle, and he had to work himself all the way back to the show, and now he's playing third line, fourth line, he's playing second power play.
00:39:54.480 --> 00:39:55.440
He's been really good.
00:39:55.679 --> 00:40:01.599
Carolina is so good at finding those players that other teams, for whatever reason, just let go.
00:40:01.920 --> 00:40:09.199
Like, how dumb was it of Steve Eiserman and the Detroit Red Wings to let go of Shane Gossespare after he had a 60-point season?
00:40:09.360 --> 00:40:16.320
Like, you couldn't pay that guy four million dollars, and then Carolina swoops up and pays him, you know, just a shade under four for four years.
00:40:16.400 --> 00:40:19.440
They get him, they get stank of it on a team-friendly deal.
00:40:19.679 --> 00:40:21.280
Ealers doesn't break the bank.
00:40:21.360 --> 00:40:29.519
Then you have a guy like Jackson Blake locked up long term for you know minimal money for how his produce just production, Taylor Hall to a former MVP.
00:40:29.679 --> 00:40:40.400
If you look at their team and and the makeup of it, it's like they've gotten some really good players at Nordstrom Rack that were just kind of hanging around that other teams just let go for nothing.
00:40:40.639 --> 00:40:42.960
Yeah, yeah, they've capitalized on that.
00:40:43.039 --> 00:40:46.400
And you gotta feel happy for a guy like Rob Brindemore.
00:40:46.480 --> 00:40:53.920
I mean, that guy's you know, you always respect him, and I'm happy he's he's back in the NHL, the Stanley Cup finals.
00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:56.480
Um, because didn't he win it with him as a player?
00:40:56.719 --> 00:41:01.519
Yep, hasn't been back as a coach, but now he's back as a coach, so you're happy for him.
00:41:01.599 --> 00:41:06.239
Yeah, I mean, they're a great team, they're a great team.
00:41:06.400 --> 00:41:10.960
I just I still for whatever reason there's that lurking, yeah.
00:41:11.119 --> 00:41:16.960
There's that there's that thing in the air that's just like uh I don't feel confident about them.
00:41:17.199 --> 00:41:24.639
I know, yeah, and especially going against the beast, too, of the bad boys of the Vegas Gold Knights, everything that they have.
00:41:24.880 --> 00:41:26.239
Yeah, it's gonna be interesting.
00:41:26.320 --> 00:41:31.360
I I'm I'm curious to see what it goes back to Vegas as.
00:41:31.440 --> 00:41:32.320
Is it one one?
00:41:32.559 --> 00:41:34.000
Is it two nothing Vegas?
00:41:34.079 --> 00:41:35.440
Is it two nothing Carolina?
00:41:35.599 --> 00:41:40.639
I mean, that's a hard building to play in, and that style Vegas has not seen a style like this.
00:41:40.719 --> 00:41:57.840
It's shot volume, it's throw it in your face, it's go to work, it's very demanding, it's all over the place, it's young legs, it's and it's kind of matched up against the veteran chess players that just snuck themselves into the playoffs and all of a sudden got some mojo going and they're ready to go.
00:41:58.000 --> 00:42:02.159
So, yeah, it's um I think it's gonna come down to the goaltending.
00:42:02.239 --> 00:42:02.960
I really do.
00:42:03.119 --> 00:42:08.239
I I think the Carolina Hurricanes is as good as Dobush played, he ran out of steam a little bit.
00:42:08.400 --> 00:42:14.480
They haven't seen a guy kick like this either when they need a timely save on the other hand of the Vegas Gold Knights.
00:42:14.719 --> 00:42:17.920
Yeah, I guess Freddie Anderson's save percentage is 931.
00:42:18.000 --> 00:42:18.800
That's pretty good.
00:42:19.119 --> 00:42:20.960
But he's also facing 15 a night.
00:42:21.039 --> 00:42:22.159
Like no shots.
00:42:22.239 --> 00:42:22.639
It's crazy.
00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:23.119
I know.
00:42:23.360 --> 00:42:25.440
Carter Hart's at 924.
00:42:25.840 --> 00:42:26.400
Yeah.
00:42:26.800 --> 00:42:29.039
I just trust him more right now for some reason.
00:42:29.119 --> 00:42:29.679
I just trust him.
00:42:29.840 --> 00:42:30.400
I do too.
00:42:30.559 --> 00:42:33.920
Yeah, like so gun to your chin.
00:42:35.199 --> 00:42:39.199
Vegas is your pick, but how many games, fella?
00:42:40.320 --> 00:42:41.360
I think six.
00:42:41.599 --> 00:42:44.000
Yeah, that's kind of what I'm le 4-2.
00:42:44.480 --> 00:42:45.039
That's my guess.
00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:46.239
4-2, yeah.
00:42:46.400 --> 00:42:48.719
Maybe 1-1 leaving Carolina.
00:42:48.960 --> 00:42:50.880
Vegas gets two at home.
00:42:51.599 --> 00:42:55.599
Maybe they so that would be 3-1-4.
00:42:56.000 --> 00:42:57.760
That'd be a 3-1 and then go back.
00:42:57.840 --> 00:42:58.079
Yeah.
00:42:58.960 --> 00:42:59.119
Yeah.
00:42:59.360 --> 00:42:59.840
I like that.
00:42:59.920 --> 00:43:00.800
That I like that too.
00:43:01.039 --> 00:43:01.840
I'd be happy with that.
00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:05.360
Like, when you look at Carolina, Dorotho, who is their best player?
00:43:05.599 --> 00:43:06.480
Like, who is it?
00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:09.440
You gotta take one guy off the team.
00:43:09.519 --> 00:43:10.239
Who are you taking?
00:43:10.400 --> 00:43:13.280
They're just so committee driven.
00:43:13.360 --> 00:43:14.719
Like, you forget about Jarvis.
00:43:14.960 --> 00:43:17.519
You you you forget about, and he's a penalty killer too.
00:43:17.920 --> 00:43:18.320
He's really good.
00:43:18.960 --> 00:43:19.360
He's really good.
00:43:20.639 --> 00:43:28.320
If I'm picking one player on the Carolina Hurricanes, that's so tough.
00:43:28.880 --> 00:43:30.480
Ealers, I think.
00:43:31.280 --> 00:43:36.480
I think I think I'm going Ealers or Stank oven, but I maybe maybe stanky.
00:43:36.800 --> 00:43:37.679
Maybe I think it's stay.
00:43:37.760 --> 00:43:38.320
I'm going stanky.
00:43:38.480 --> 00:43:39.840
I'm going probably stanky.
00:43:39.920 --> 00:43:40.719
That's what I would pick.
00:43:40.960 --> 00:43:41.920
Yeah, I think I'm going to.
00:43:42.000 --> 00:43:43.360
I mean, he's got nine goals.
00:43:43.599 --> 00:43:44.239
It's close.
00:43:44.320 --> 00:43:47.920
It's not like it's not like Vegas, where you're like, you're taking you're taking ike.
00:43:48.239 --> 00:43:48.639
Yeah.
00:43:48.880 --> 00:43:49.199
Yeah.
00:43:49.440 --> 00:43:51.199
No, I I think it's stank oven.
00:43:51.519 --> 00:43:54.079
That's and that's a winger, too, right?
00:43:54.159 --> 00:43:55.199
It's not even a centerman.
00:43:55.280 --> 00:43:56.559
So that's a little different.
00:43:57.440 --> 00:44:04.559
Because matchup wise, you No, you'd you'd like your best player to be a center or a D.
00:44:04.719 --> 00:44:04.880
Yeah.
00:44:05.280 --> 00:44:06.159
We're taking a winger.
00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:07.280
So that's yeah, I don't know.
00:44:07.360 --> 00:44:08.800
I mean, they have a ton of good wingers.
00:44:08.880 --> 00:44:09.360
That's a thing.
00:44:09.519 --> 00:44:12.159
In Carolina, they've they're all kind of like the same kind of player.
00:44:19.920 --> 00:44:22.800
He he's got to be one of the best third line centers in the league.
00:44:22.960 --> 00:44:23.440
For sure.
00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:27.679
I mean, Bill Carlson, I mean, he's in he's so good on the defensive side of the pocket.
00:44:27.840 --> 00:44:28.000
Yeah.
00:44:28.239 --> 00:44:28.800
They're scratching.
00:44:29.280 --> 00:44:31.360
The middle of Vegas is fucking terrifying.
00:44:31.599 --> 00:44:32.239
Yeah.
00:44:32.639 --> 00:44:34.639
And they're D, too.
00:44:34.800 --> 00:44:40.960
Like if they get that Dylan Croglin kid that was in the minors the whole year, I mean, what a series he had against Colorado.
00:44:41.039 --> 00:44:43.199
He scores to open up the series.
00:44:43.360 --> 00:44:51.519
And then he has the game clinching assist to Cole Smith in front of the cage to make it 2-0, which was ultimately the game winner against Colorado in game four.
00:44:51.679 --> 00:44:57.360
So if you're looking at just contributions and then look at even Vegas' fourth line center, I mean it's Nikki Dowd.
00:44:57.599 --> 00:44:59.280
Is he the best fourth line center in the league?
00:44:59.360 --> 00:45:00.079
I would say yes.
00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:01.440
Right now, yeah, for sure.
00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:02.800
For sure, right?
00:45:03.039 --> 00:45:09.599
It certainly looks like there's just whatever reason about Nikki Dowd, it just looks like he's trying harder than everyone else out there.
00:45:09.840 --> 00:45:10.159
So hard.
00:45:10.480 --> 00:45:13.679
Whenever he's out there, he's trying harder than anyone else.
00:45:13.920 --> 00:45:20.960
Yeah, he it just it looks like it's just very hard work for him to get from the goal line to the top of the circles.
00:45:21.199 --> 00:45:23.440
And he does battle though.
00:45:23.519 --> 00:45:28.719
He is I do not want to, I do not you do not want to find yourself in a corner battle with that guy.
00:45:28.880 --> 00:45:31.920
No trying to pick a puck out of there, like fuck.
00:45:32.079 --> 00:45:33.920
He's he's he's relentless.
00:45:34.079 --> 00:45:35.280
He's just one of those guys too.
00:45:35.360 --> 00:45:37.280
You just know tries way too hard in practice.
00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:38.400
Oh, way too hard.
00:45:38.480 --> 00:45:39.679
He's going hard in summer.
00:45:39.840 --> 00:45:42.480
You're getting pissed off at him like, buddy, fucking July.
00:45:42.639 --> 00:45:44.000
Yeah, out of my face.
00:45:44.639 --> 00:45:45.440
He's going that hard.
00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:46.880
I've been in those skates with him.
00:45:46.960 --> 00:45:47.840
Yes, it does suck.
00:45:47.920 --> 00:45:49.119
He's going way too hard.
00:45:49.280 --> 00:45:50.719
That's all he knows.
00:45:51.679 --> 00:45:54.000
Yeah, that that they're gonna be tough to beat, man.
00:45:54.079 --> 00:45:59.440
They they really are, and especially with the mojo with torts and the confidence he's given Carter Hart.
00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:02.079
I'm I'm interested to see how this goes.
00:46:02.159 --> 00:46:04.239
So we got a great series coming up.
00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:07.760
Azo also, too, just wanted to touch on it.
00:46:07.920 --> 00:46:09.280
The ball has been pretty good.
00:46:09.360 --> 00:46:10.000
The association.
00:46:10.079 --> 00:46:12.719
I know we don't have a ton of NBA fans here.
00:46:13.119 --> 00:46:17.840
Most of them rightfully so, call NBA guys soft, pussies, woke, this and that.
00:46:17.920 --> 00:46:19.679
But the NBA playoffs have been pretty good.
00:46:19.760 --> 00:46:21.599
That it was a nice game seven last night.
00:46:21.679 --> 00:46:23.199
Uh OKC and the Spurs.
00:46:23.519 --> 00:46:24.239
That was fun.
00:46:24.400 --> 00:46:28.079
And then we got Spurs in New York, man.
00:46:28.159 --> 00:46:31.199
I mean, that city, New York City, is gonna be buzzing, dude.
00:46:31.360 --> 00:46:31.760
Buzzing.
00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:47.599
Like, I remember talking to someone in New York City when we had a show there in late April, and I was like, if you're looking at New York sports, and every team is in the final or wins, what's the biggest one?
00:46:47.760 --> 00:46:59.039
Yankees, obviously, you got Giants, Jets, you got Rangers, Islanders, those don't really matter, but you also have the Mets, which again don't matter either.
00:46:59.199 --> 00:47:09.199
But they were saying that it if the New York Knicks win or won, that that is the that's the biggest one, which is crazy over the Yankees, and that was like the general consensus from from all the New Yorkers.
00:47:09.440 --> 00:47:10.079
Was it really?
00:47:10.239 --> 00:47:16.559
Yeah, I would have thought the Yankees, but they yeah, I've heard I've heard because they haven't won in so long.
00:47:16.639 --> 00:47:18.239
I mean, when's the last time the Knicks have won?
00:47:18.320 --> 00:47:22.400
I know they've won one, what was it like 50, 60 years ago or something?
00:47:22.559 --> 00:47:24.000
I think it was like 60 years ago, yeah.
00:47:24.239 --> 00:47:28.719
I think the last time they were in the final was with like John Starks, Patty Ewing, but they never won.
00:47:29.360 --> 00:47:33.199
So oh, I just they got a chance.
00:47:33.360 --> 00:47:39.360
I thought if the Thunder won, they would kind of roll over the Knicks, but the Spurs team is young.
00:47:39.519 --> 00:47:43.440
Um, it's just you gotta get past that fucking alien Wemby.
00:47:43.760 --> 00:47:51.840
I mean, if you don't like watching basketball, I get it, but if you like sports, you gotta turn on these Spurs games with this Wemby, this Wembin Yama.
00:47:52.239 --> 00:47:55.280
I mean, he is it's hilarious watching him, Jordan.
00:47:55.519 --> 00:47:56.639
Doesn't he look like he's human out there?
00:47:56.719 --> 00:47:57.760
You're like, what is this guy?
00:47:57.840 --> 00:48:01.440
He's any and he can shoot threes, he's shooting from the logo.
00:48:01.920 --> 00:48:03.760
This guy's nuts, he's not even a human.
00:48:03.840 --> 00:48:13.280
Uh so he did that trip with the monks where he spent three weeks in silence, he was dribbling a basketball up a mountain for like 14 hours straight.
00:48:13.440 --> 00:48:14.639
Nothing about this guy makes sense.
00:48:14.719 --> 00:48:17.920
I'm pretty sure he was just built in a petri dish in a lab somewhere.
00:48:18.320 --> 00:48:21.599
He actually lists his height, he tries to as shorter than he is.
00:48:21.679 --> 00:48:24.079
I mean, just nothing about this guy makes sense.
00:48:24.239 --> 00:48:26.400
And you know, it wasn't like a legacy game for him.
00:48:26.639 --> 00:48:30.719
A lot of his teammates did step up in that game seven, but he still had a smooth 22 piece.
00:48:30.880 --> 00:48:42.719
He looked good, he got through, and you know, San Antonio, just the organization in general, has been such a well-oiled machine, uh, no diddy, for the last 20-30 years with Greg Popovich and just their scouting staff.
00:48:42.800 --> 00:48:50.320
So it's it's a great organization, and they always recruit, and it just seems like they always get these guys that that aren't knuckleheads, doesn't it seem like that?
00:48:50.400 --> 00:49:00.719
Yeah, it's like yes, they get they get the respectable, you know, just dogs that want to play basketball, not the guys that are in it for the Cuban link change and the bad bitches, and yes, they stay out of trouble.
00:49:00.960 --> 00:49:06.800
They're like the the good, they're like the Yankees of uh of the NBA, a little bit, you know.
00:49:06.880 --> 00:49:13.039
They just they're there for basketball, the women are fat, you know, in the crowd.
00:49:13.360 --> 00:49:14.800
Chuck says it all the time.
00:49:14.960 --> 00:49:16.239
You're not there for the women.
00:49:16.400 --> 00:49:21.360
No, food's probably some good Mexican food outside of that, probably not much.
00:49:21.599 --> 00:49:23.840
Yes, you're there to win basketball games.
00:49:24.079 --> 00:49:25.280
That city sucks.
00:49:25.440 --> 00:49:26.000
Oh my god.
00:49:26.239 --> 00:49:27.199
Oh, it's brutal.
00:49:27.440 --> 00:49:30.719
The two years that I was there on the and I love when Chuck says that ain't a river.
00:49:30.800 --> 00:49:33.519
The talk about the riverbog, that's a dirty old creek.
00:49:33.679 --> 00:49:40.159
All those good, beautiful, bad, he's always says the good, beautiful, fat women of San Antonio eating churros.
00:49:40.559 --> 00:49:41.679
That's exactly what it is.
00:49:41.760 --> 00:49:45.840
That city sucks, but the basketball, the games are fun to go to.
00:49:46.079 --> 00:49:52.400
But holy shit, man, that city is just fucking fat, ugly, and I don't know what you do with that city.
00:49:52.480 --> 00:49:53.519
You might just blow it up.
00:49:53.599 --> 00:49:57.760
You know, it's like one of the top five or six biggest cities in the US.
00:49:58.000 --> 00:49:59.039
Yeah, I just saw that.
00:49:59.360 --> 00:50:03.440
I just saw a list of the the most populous cities in the U.S.
00:50:03.519 --> 00:50:04.880
and San Antonio is up there.
00:50:04.960 --> 00:50:07.599
I was like, what that many people in San Antonio?
00:50:07.760 --> 00:50:12.320
Because the downtown is not it's not like a big city downtown.
00:50:12.559 --> 00:50:27.440
No, it's just so spread out that there's you know you drive 30 miles any direction, and they still consider it San Antonio, and it's just like the shitty old, you know, it's like an outlet mall or a big shopping area, and it's the same shit.
00:50:27.519 --> 00:50:38.960
It's you know, H E B, which is the grocery store, and then you got a Costco, probably right next to it, a Bucky's, another gas station, and then like a beef jerky factory where everyone goes and just farts and picks up some jack lynx.
00:50:39.119 --> 00:50:40.159
Like, it's disgusting, man.
00:50:40.239 --> 00:50:41.280
It really is.
00:50:41.519 --> 00:50:44.079
It's gross, and then there's like some shitty Mexican place.
00:50:44.239 --> 00:50:46.320
Oh that place sucks.
00:50:46.559 --> 00:50:49.599
That was the place that was the place that was my car got broken into.
00:50:49.679 --> 00:50:52.000
Like I was there for four months, it got broken into three times.
00:50:52.079 --> 00:50:54.400
I'm like, at this point, just fucking steal it.
00:50:54.480 --> 00:50:55.840
Like, I didn't want it.
00:50:56.159 --> 00:50:57.599
Take it, fucking take it.
00:50:57.840 --> 00:51:03.679
Breaking my back window every guy every other week, finding nothing in there, and then just leaving the glass everywhere.
00:51:03.760 --> 00:51:05.280
It's like, Jesus Christ, what is it?
00:51:05.360 --> 00:51:06.159
What's up with this city?
00:51:06.320 --> 00:51:08.159
Just leave the doors and windows open next time.
00:51:08.239 --> 00:51:08.880
They won't break.
00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:11.119
Yeah, that place, man.
00:51:11.199 --> 00:51:14.400
It's uh I got a special bone to pick with Man Antonio.
00:51:14.480 --> 00:51:18.880
That place is just yeah, I know, but that would be cool to be in New York for these games for sure.
00:51:19.039 --> 00:51:22.719
Do you see those court those courtside tickets were going for like 300,000?
00:51:23.039 --> 00:51:25.840
300 for I saw 500k for what?
00:51:25.920 --> 00:51:34.000
Like, who so you're telling me when I watch this game, like a celebrity can't afford a$500,000 ticket, right?
00:51:34.239 --> 00:51:35.920
Like that's like a billionaire or something.
00:51:36.079 --> 00:51:36.960
That's a billionaire, yeah.
00:51:37.039 --> 00:51:38.800
Yeah, like$500,000?
00:51:39.119 --> 00:51:42.880
Like an actor, like they're not they don't even have enough money to buy that ticket, right?
00:51:43.039 --> 00:51:43.760
Like, no chance.
00:51:44.079 --> 00:52:03.360
No, like Timothy Chalet, no, no, but I think what those like real celebrities do is they have deals with Dolan and Madison Square Garden where they'll probably come to an agreement agreement of we'll give you these tickets at face value just because we want the clout in there, you know what I mean.
00:52:03.599 --> 00:52:08.719
So if the if the face value is 20,000 on the wood for the final, they'll pay that, you know what I mean?
00:52:08.880 --> 00:52:18.079
Yeah, I was wondering if it was like an agent deal, like you know, call her call up RE gold and tell him, Hey, like, buddy, if you actually like me, you'll get me these tickets to the next game.
00:52:18.400 --> 00:52:24.320
But I I I can't even see an agent dropping 500k on no these tickets, you know.
00:52:24.719 --> 00:52:34.480
But yeah, you might be right, they might like those, they want those people in there because there's always celebrities at Knicks games, and I saw those tickets, and I was like, What are these celebrities gonna be sitting off the front row?
00:52:34.559 --> 00:52:36.719
Like, yeah, I don't know about that.
00:52:37.119 --> 00:52:39.039
I know that was a crazy thing, too.
00:52:39.119 --> 00:52:47.840
And we when I was in in Diddy Wood and I went to that Theo Vaughn show, we obes is good buddies with Connolly, and we were just we hung out with him afterwards, it was cool.
00:52:47.920 --> 00:52:50.320
And then, like, two nights later, I was like, Yeah, that was cool.
00:52:50.400 --> 00:52:52.719
I was you know, I've met him before, whatever.
00:52:53.039 --> 00:52:56.719
And then two nights later, he's on the wood with Leo at the Lakers game.
00:52:56.800 --> 00:53:03.280
I'm like, all right, that's you know, that's it's a little cooler than hanging out with Jay Swish and Shane O'Brien, but you know, I thought we were, you know, made him laugh at least a little bit.
00:53:03.360 --> 00:53:08.719
Yeah, yeah, it's like a good time with you guys, but yeah, I'm gonna go uh go hang out with Leo.
00:53:08.880 --> 00:53:09.440
He's got Lee.
00:53:09.599 --> 00:53:14.559
Hey, he's got Leo on the calendar the same week he's got Swish, yeah, Obi.
00:53:14.880 --> 00:53:16.320
Yeah, that's pretty nails.
00:53:16.639 --> 00:53:20.960
Um, I didn't know how long like Connolly's been in LA for.
00:53:21.039 --> 00:53:25.440
I thought like he's like a true, he's like a child actor there with like Leo, wasn't he, or something?
00:53:25.599 --> 00:53:26.800
Oh, yeah, yes, yes, he was.
00:53:26.880 --> 00:53:29.920
Yeah, that's exactly they've known each other for 35 years.
00:53:30.559 --> 00:53:32.639
That's pretty sick, like they're just buddies.
00:53:32.880 --> 00:53:40.400
Yeah, they came up through Hollywood together, and like when Leo was getting all of his early gigs, like Titanic, I forget what else he did.
00:53:40.639 --> 00:53:48.960
Connolly was like 30 years old, and he had been grinding for different roles, different auditions, never got anything.
00:53:49.039 --> 00:53:50.079
He was ready to hang it up.
00:53:50.159 --> 00:53:57.440
He got to LA when he was 18, and like at 31 or 32, that entourage deal came in and he auditioned.
00:53:57.599 --> 00:54:00.480
He got the role for E, and the rest is history, man.
00:54:00.559 --> 00:54:01.360
That's crazy, isn't it?
00:54:01.440 --> 00:54:08.639
It's just crazy how everyone, no matter what walk of life you're in, it's not necessarily the same time as your buddy's time.
00:54:08.719 --> 00:54:13.039
But you're you're you're all gonna have your time if you stay at it long enough, but a lot of people quit.
00:54:13.199 --> 00:54:17.920
A lot of people quit a lot of people stop before they're there, and yeah, it's just right around the corner.
00:54:18.000 --> 00:54:25.280
It's like that meme you always see of that guy that that miner like digging, and he turns around and the pot of gold's right on the other side.
00:54:25.519 --> 00:54:35.199
Yeah, it's and that's the one thing when you're like you know, I'm sure he's sitting there and he's probably comparing himself to Leo too, and he's like, Fuck, like, what the fuck's wrong with me and stuff?
00:54:35.360 --> 00:54:38.719
And yeah, it's never you never know when you're gonna when you're gonna get that chance.
00:54:38.800 --> 00:54:42.159
And like, I don't know how much money is he still making from Entourage.
00:54:42.320 --> 00:54:45.360
Like, I still watch that show, and I've seen it 10 times.
00:54:45.599 --> 00:54:46.400
A hundred percent.
00:54:46.480 --> 00:54:49.920
Yeah, I mean, that literally made his entire career, you know.
00:54:50.000 --> 00:54:51.280
Like, it's just it's crazy.
00:54:51.360 --> 00:54:52.639
Like, was entourage?
00:54:52.719 --> 00:55:07.199
I mean, I in the height of Entourage, was it the biggest show at its time, or was it just the biggest show amongst us dude, dudes like us that wanted to live that life at 15?
00:55:07.280 --> 00:55:10.079
You know, we're like, Rock, if we make the NHL, this is how we want to do it.
00:55:10.159 --> 00:55:13.519
It's for sure the biggest show among guys like us, yeah.
00:55:13.679 --> 00:55:15.760
Yeah, uh, I don't know how big it was.
00:55:15.920 --> 00:55:17.039
Like, I know it was huge.
00:55:17.280 --> 00:55:18.800
I mean, they made a movie.
00:55:18.960 --> 00:55:23.280
I mean, they you don't make movies about TV shows unless a TV show is massive.
00:55:23.440 --> 00:55:28.559
Um, and you also HBO doesn't go eight seasons if it's not big either, right?
00:55:28.800 --> 00:55:30.800
So it had to have been really big.
00:55:30.960 --> 00:55:34.000
Like, not many TV shows make it eight seasons and a movie.
00:55:34.159 --> 00:55:36.000
I mean, that's big time.
00:55:36.239 --> 00:55:40.000
Yeah, no, I I I definitely I think it was it was I was just curious.
00:55:40.079 --> 00:55:42.800
Like, I was like I'd be curious to see those contracts, Jordo.
00:55:42.880 --> 00:55:48.960
Like, you know, all those like those friends actors, how much money they still make off the show and like Seinfeld.
00:55:49.119 --> 00:55:55.920
I wonder what that looks like for entrage, or if their deals were different, or if like one of the actors kind of signed a shitty deal.
00:55:56.159 --> 00:55:58.559
Uh yeah, fun to see those numbers.
00:55:58.960 --> 00:56:00.880
Yeah, I think they were, I don't know.
00:56:00.960 --> 00:56:04.719
Uh I forget like the last couple seasons when they were bringing in real cheddar.
00:56:04.800 --> 00:56:11.840
I don't know if it was like a million in an episode, or I mean you can look it up, I don't know if it was 500, but it was somewhere between 500 and a million, I think, per episode.
00:56:11.920 --> 00:56:14.000
So that's when they were making like their real cheddar.
00:56:14.159 --> 00:56:17.599
I think season one and two, they might have started off like 50 grand an episode.
00:56:17.679 --> 00:56:19.679
But I remember asking them like that night, too.
00:56:19.840 --> 00:56:22.400
I was like, How long did it take to film one episode?
00:56:22.480 --> 00:56:26.880
And they said he said like five to seven days, it would just grind it out, grind it out.
00:56:27.039 --> 00:56:30.719
Oh, that's crazy! And you know, they're in the killed it though.
00:56:30.800 --> 00:56:31.920
That show is flawless.
00:56:32.159 --> 00:56:32.719
I know, yeah.
00:56:32.800 --> 00:56:34.880
Doug Ellen, he wrote the entire thing.
00:56:35.039 --> 00:56:36.079
Pretty crazy.
00:56:36.400 --> 00:56:42.800
So sick, so sick, but also in other news, it was announced a couple weeks ago, but we went off.
00:56:43.360 --> 00:56:45.840
Joseph Chestnut had a scare.
00:56:46.159 --> 00:56:50.320
He was uh involved in a bar fight outside of Indianapolis.
00:56:50.639 --> 00:57:01.519
Sounds like he slapped a man, and that man took offense, or I guess not a liking to Joey's love tap, and ultimately was ordered some probation.
00:57:01.760 --> 00:57:02.880
Uh, but good news.
00:57:02.960 --> 00:57:04.800
Uh the 4th of July is saved.
00:57:04.960 --> 00:57:13.440
The judge in the local county there in Indianapolis ruled that Joseph Chestnut will be able to travel to Coney Island for the 4th of July.
00:57:13.519 --> 00:57:17.599
Uh, so we had a little bit of a scare there for all the dog lovers and ball knowers.
00:57:17.760 --> 00:57:26.239
Uh Joey Chestnut will be going for his 18th, 18th win at Nathan's hot dog eating competition.
00:57:26.320 --> 00:57:40.880
So uh Joey Chestnut sounded like he was just absolutely licked, ended up slapping a dude that maybe was asking for a picture or an autograph, and uh found himself in hot water once the other individual found out who he was.
00:57:41.039 --> 00:57:49.360
So uh Joey, ankle bracelet on, will be in the guts of Coney Island showing out for the people of America.
00:57:50.000 --> 00:57:54.400
Must have just been so buckled or something, just got snappy with the guy.
00:57:54.559 --> 00:57:55.920
The guy must have deserved it though.
00:57:56.000 --> 00:57:56.960
It was for a slap.
00:57:57.119 --> 00:58:02.159
Like you actually get thrown in you get thrown in jail or prison for slapping someone nowadays.
00:58:02.320 --> 00:58:03.119
I didn't know that.
00:58:03.360 --> 00:58:04.000
Yeah, I don't know.
00:58:04.079 --> 00:58:06.239
I mean, uh, I guess it's such a loose term.
00:58:06.320 --> 00:58:08.079
Like, how hard did he slap them?
00:58:08.159 --> 00:58:09.119
Was it open hand?
00:58:09.199 --> 00:58:10.239
Was it backhand?
00:58:10.400 --> 00:58:12.320
Yeah, how much sauce did it have on it?
00:58:12.400 --> 00:58:22.159
There's just so many questions I have for Joey, but it's good to see Joseph worked in good faith with the community of Indianapolis and because that a lot of shit happens in that city, man.
00:58:22.320 --> 00:58:24.800
Like, let look at Mark Sanchez, he fucking almost killed a guy.
00:58:25.039 --> 00:58:26.320
Something about that city, man.
00:58:26.400 --> 00:58:28.159
I gotta I gotta stay away from Indy.
00:58:28.400 --> 00:58:29.119
Jesus Christ.
00:58:29.199 --> 00:58:32.719
Yeah, don't go to Indy with the with the fight strap off.
00:58:32.800 --> 00:58:34.639
You might end up in some real hot weather.
00:58:34.960 --> 00:58:36.559
What's the story on Sanchez?
00:58:36.639 --> 00:58:39.519
Is he is he out of that, or is he still kind of battling?
00:58:40.000 --> 00:58:41.599
I don't know on Mark Marcus.
00:58:41.679 --> 00:58:42.079
I'm not sure.
00:58:42.159 --> 00:58:43.360
I mean, he's definitely laying low.
00:58:43.440 --> 00:58:46.480
I don't I don't know what criminal charges or if he's gonna go to jail.
00:58:46.559 --> 00:58:48.079
I haven't heard anything on that front.
00:58:48.239 --> 00:58:58.400
The best part about Mark Sanchez and what he did was two weeks later it was Thanksgiving, and he posted a picture of his family on Instagram, didn't turn the comments off, actually pretty nails.
00:58:58.559 --> 00:59:12.480
So he let people just absolutely roast them, and he just the caption was something along the lines of there's a lot to be thankful for, and he just had everyone just roasting them in his comments, like bro, you can turn those off if you're really gonna post a picture.
00:59:12.639 --> 00:59:13.760
I thought that was pretty good.
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All press is good.
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Press, it is, it is, you know.
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I wasn't talking about Mark Sanchez before that.
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No, I wasn't.
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I I kind of forgot who he was, to be honest.
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Yeah, great quarterback, great quarterback.
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How many guys do you think bring their golf clubs this year, fully knowing we are not golfing?
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I mean, we had two or three that one year in Nashville.
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I are we over the point of of selling the golf trip.
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I I think we're all mature enough now, right?
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It's like ah, we're just gonna want in to drink, it's Chicago.
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Yeah, maybe maybe the maybe we can just be more honest about it now.
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Yeah, maybe one set.
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Yeah, one set.
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It'd be so funny to see a couple of guys coming with them.
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It'd be great.
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Yep, it would it would be really funny.
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I I always enjoyed.
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I was just thinking about bringing my own wrenches to the trip because a lot of times I just bring my clubs to places and I don't even end up using them.
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I remember like two years ago where I brought them to Edmonton.
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We were supposed to do a sandbagger up there, didn't play, brought them through Vegas because we hot routed to Vegas for a night, and then ended up here and my wrenches lugged like 5,000 miles and flying around with wrenches.
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How big is that?
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I'm in like four different airports.
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I gotta pick up my wrenches, and I have not played around.
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They never left the bag.
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No, they never left the heart, and you know, you some of you take them out all the time, and your fucking putter is like bent and half.
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Oh, yeah, it's the worst.
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It's the worst.
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That's hilarious.
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It is the worst, but Azzo, we're gonna get to this week's People's Insider term of the week, fella.
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I don't think I've used this one, but folks, this week's People's Insider term of the week is a unique one, and here it is.
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This week's People's Insider term of the week is Inter League.
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Now, before you call me an absolute douchebag and say I'm some frat guy, this and that, I'm 48 years old.
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I'm pretty much out of the game, as it is.
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But Ozzo, there is one thing for all the younger sailors out there, and especially guys that travel in and around North America.
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And especially at this time of year, when bachelor trips get going, you have golf trips, you're just kind of buzzing all over the place.
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Hockey players, you finally got a little time to travel, the sun is out, you're popping and weaving and going to different spots.
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So whether you're going on vacation, you're going north to Canada to enjoy maybe the Grand Prix weekend.
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Maybe you're just going up to Toronto to see a concert at Budweiser Amphitheater.
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Or maybe you're going down into the guts of Mexico, going to Cabo or Tulum.
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I don't know what you're doing, but if you're a single guy, we call this inner league.
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Now, inner league Azzo is referred to in layman's terms as playing in a different league, playing out of jurisdiction.
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If you're in the National League, well, the American League, there's two sides of the coin in baseball.
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Now we're talking baseball.
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This is that.
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So when you step out of your own realm, you step out of your own league.
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And if you're an American kid and you're going up to Canada or you're going down to Mexico, it's considered inner league.
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It's the same game of baseball, yet, hey, we're in a different country here, man.
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We got to play a little bit different ball.
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In the old days, well, pitchers they couldn't hit in the American League.
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The National League, you had to bat.
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So you have to adjust your game accordingly, depending on where you're going.
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Inner league, usually only a couple weeks out of the summer, you get to play it.
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So you have to take advantage of it.
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You have to realize that there's a different set of rules, it's a little bit different of a game, but the same time you're playing the same sports.
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So, Oswald, this is this week's People's Insider term of the week, despite it being baseball.
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My friend, you're stepping out to a different league and you have to adjust to the diamond you're playing in accordingly.
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I love that one.
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I haven't heard that one, Giardo.
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I'm actually it's interly.
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Yeah, we're playing Interly this week, fellas.
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Uh, what does that mean?
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Uh yeah, we're slide to a different country.
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It's still baseball, but uh we're playing a different game this week, fellas.
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Still baseball, different, different fields, different rules a little bit, but we know what we gotta do.
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Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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So that is this week's People's Insider term of the week.
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Azzo Stanley Cup final starting up Tuesday.
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We got the basketball association starting up, I believe, Wednesday.
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I have to check the books there.
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I'm I'm sure they're not doing it on the same night, but and then we got the golf trip, the hardest three days in sports looking at us right down the chin.
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Last, I'll ask on that front, Paul Ledou, uh confirmed, not booked.
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Did you see any of these guys this past weekend?
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Shane Gershic, um, do we have any members um that you've been boots on the ground with and have had chin-to-chin conversation with?
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I haven't seen any of them.
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Um last I heard Gersich coming in Friday.
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Nice.
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I actually did talk to Dewey today.
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It's Sunday, May 31st, and Dewey told me he's unsure on what he's gonna do.
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Nice, so I told him you didn't have to tell me that.
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I was gonna ask you on Wednesday because I know you haven't you haven't made up your mind until Wednesday every single year, all 10 years.
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Yep, so it'd be it's a waste of time for me to ask you what you're up to until Wednesday, and that's when I'll check on him.
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Um, but no, I haven't seen any of them.
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I think Gersh's coming in Friday.
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I know um, unfortunately, Luke Johnson is out, he's got prior commitments up north, I think.
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And then um, yeah, Tomer, Tomer's uh I don't know if he's gonna be able to pull it off.
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Soul train, I don't know.
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Yeah, yeah, it's and Kajula will be missed as well.
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But he's we understand that Kajula is one out of three, right?
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He just plays too hard and ends up hurting himself.
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Um, we've seen him on stretchers, we've seen him leave the ice, we've seen him at parties.
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Uh, we know he will be back.
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So um, young Drake, if you are listening to this, we uh we'll keep you in our thoughts.
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Ste, I saw him, he was down here in AZ for a couple weeks.
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I think he's back in Madison now, but it was it was good seeing him.
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I don't know, it was funny.
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He was thinking he was gonna fly from Madison to Chicago, and Nick's like, dude, just drive with me.
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Like, you don't you're gonna fly to yeah, what is that like?
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Isn't that like two hours?
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Yeah, well, I'm saying, yeah, it's probably like a it's like it's like a 22-minute flight.
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But the thing is you land at O'Hare and then you could get you could get stuck in traffic, and now it's another hour and a half, so you might as well just drive at the right time.
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It's gonna be you know even quicker.
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It's like two hours driving, isn't it, or something like that?
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Oh, yeah, yeah, it's like two hours, maybe.
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Yeah, you gotta drive.
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You got I mean, I thought about it, but then it's gonna be nice to hop on that bird Sunday.
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Like it's six like you're coming from Minneapolis, you got a six hour drive.
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Drive like that's that six hour drive on Thursday, easy.
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Six hour drive on Sunday.
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Oh that sucks.
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Yeah, you might think about putting her in the ditch.
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No, you would for sure.
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Yeah, you round the you round 94 right around Toma, and you just said uh the like just take the Wisconsin Dells, just take me out.
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I'll run right into the fucking Kalahari.
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I don't give a shit.
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That toilet bowl.
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Yeah, that's the nice thing about driving, though.
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You got a chance to stop it in the you know Wisconsin Dells, maybe hit a few water slides.
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Yeah, grabbing some beers.
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Grab some beers on the way down and hit some water slides, be so sick.
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh, give yourself a concussion on the master blaster and just head out.
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Yeah, not even thinking perfectly.
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Oh man, that's great.
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Well, Azzo, always fun going tape to tape with you, brother.
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We will see you in the chin of Shy Town Thursday, ladies' night in the guts, meat and cheese night.
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Uh hits a little different when bark time's five in the morning in Chicago.
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So uh it's just funny uh trying to line up a dinner or something.
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You know, he's still 10 years later, just not ready for the dinner yet.
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But eating is cheating, as we know.
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So Ozzo, that was episode 120, live and five, with the captain Gage Ozzo Osmus, Jay Swish.
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Folks, you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.
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We out, baby.
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Woo!
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Alrighty, folks.
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Welcome back to another episode, baby, of Live and Five, the Captain Gage, Ozo Osmus.
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As always, Jay Swish reporting live from the guts of beautiful North Scottsdale, Arizona, the last day of May.
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We're heading into June, Ozzo, and you know what that means.
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On Monday, we will be entering the greatest week in sports, as far as I'm concerned.
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Better than Christmas.
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It is better when you get uh just some alone time around Thanksgiving from your family members you don't want to talk to.
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It is the 10th annual North Dakota Sioux golf trip, brother.
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First off, how are we feeling?
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How has your training been leading in and out of camp?
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Are you ready for the hardest three days in sports?
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Am I ready?
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No.
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Um, how's my training been?
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It hasn't been, it's actually probably my worst year training coming up to this event journal, but okay.
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That being said, it's year 10, it's a special year.
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There were doubters who think who thought we'd never make it here.
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Right.
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They thought we never see it to year 10.
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But we're still here, it's a good career.
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It's a hell of a league, as Dale would say.
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I'll be ready.
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I'm not worried about my training regime.
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I'm a veteran now.
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I'm one of those guys, you know.
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I I relax in this the off season.
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Um, but come come training camp and the season when we get there, Jordo.
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Uh I have no doubt I'll find my feet right away.
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Yeah, I'm not worried about you.
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You've always been a highly competitive player that plays in the top of the lineup.
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And I don't think you're truly ever ready.
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You're you really understand what goes into this week.
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But Ozzo, if you're comparing yourself to a modern day hockey player, like at least in my eyes, no matter what you do in the summer, it doesn't really matter.
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Like, for me, you're you're an old school guy where you probably don't even put the skates on until mid-August, maybe even around Labor Day, and you just show up to camp ready to play.
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You're not like a guy that I think gets in your own head or in your own way where the season ends and before the next one even starts, you're on the ice like a week later.
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That doesn't really strike me as your type of make and model.
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No, I like to get away from the game, Jordo.
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I don't want to burn myself out, you know.
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Um, because you know, it sometimes it could be a lot, you know.
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If you if you do it year round, um, you know, the the passion and love for the game can start to slip and it could be a little too much.
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That's why I like to take my off season and rest up, and that's why I feel confident coming in this every year, you know.
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I'm I'm just you know, I'm ready for it.
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I've prepared, I've done what I needed to do.
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And there are things you need to do to prepare for these golf trips, Jordo.
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Um, you've got to put in the time if you do have a loved one, you have to put in the time so you feel comfortable going on this trip.
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Um, and you have to do a lot of things and and schedule it out and you know, fight some of those demons.
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And it does take discipline going there because we're all 30-year-old men now, plus that.
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Um, I'd say we're on the back half of our our you know, our stardom.
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But I still I think we still got it, Jordo.
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I mean, we're a team of veterans, we still got it.
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Yeah, I think there's still a window there for for all the players involved in terms of what we can bring and you know, throw both ways for for three days per se.
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But the thing that always resonates with me, and it's why I think it's the funniest trip in sports, is it's called the golf trip, but we're not even bringing our clubs this year, and that seems to be a theme like many years.
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I think this is the third time in 10 years we've left the wrenches at home per se.
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It might be even the fourth.
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I was trying to add it up because we had a Scottsdale golf trip in there where we didn't bring the clubs.
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I think I maybe we played one time um when we almost lost a member of the crew that I will not um, you know, it's actually gonna remain nameless.
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Is still with us, did not get the invite back to the golf trip for uh unforeseen circumstances.
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But so we had Nashville where we didn't bring the wrenches.
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We've had Chicago where we didn't bring the wrenches.
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I'm trying to figure out if there's any other spots we didn't.
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Do you know off the top of your mind?
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I mean, there's been times we've only played like nine holes of course.
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I think Vegas was like a nine-holder for some guys.
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Yes, Nashville was eight.
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Was there a Scottsdale year in there where like the COVID year do we play?
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That's what I'm trying to think.
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I I still think we played one round that year.
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I think we played run one round, so I think it might be the second or third year where we've left the wrenches at home.
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We've never played more than two rounds, and honestly, the times we have played, we've played somewhere between four and nine holes.
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So um, I mean, I remember Nashville vividly.
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First off, the Nashville golf outing was hilarious.
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The first day we fly in, it's a hundred degrees.
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We play on that Thursday, it was whatever.
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It was actually a pretty fun round.
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Um, for a guy that doesn't play a ton anymore, just due to my schedule, I was out there, I played pretty well.
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The second day we went out there, though, it was so goddamn hot.
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We pulled in to that golf course, which is actually pretty nice.
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And our insanely high and drunk bus driver, Bobby Gregg, who will remain nameless, but did carry a pistol on him.
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Remember, he hammered the side of that stone wall as we were pulling in, like under the underpass of the country club.
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Oh, yeah.
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So he hammered that stone wall with the bus.
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He took out like four or five stones, he dented the whole fucking thing.
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I thought, like, the what do you call that?
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Like, it's not like a underpass, but it's like a a voyeur, or what is it called?
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Like it's where you pull in and it's kind of got an overhang right in front of the clubhouse.
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What's that called?
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I know it.
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I it's it's just slipping my mind right now.
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I hate when that happens, it'll come back to me.
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But yeah, yeah, I think I'm pretty sure Zayno was legit pissed at this guy.
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He was like, Yeah, dude, what are you doing?
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So we're not only were we like an hour late for our tea time, he hammers the stone wall of this overhang of this golf club.
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So now, like the superintendent that's out there, the club pro, they're like, What is going on?
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And and basically the guy came up to us, the the head pro marshal was like, You got to get on the course because you know you're ready an hour late, guys.
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You got four tea times or five blocked off.
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So we go out there, we slatch around our group.
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We end up just leaving the course.
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It was me, Nikki, Kajula, and I forget who else was playing with us, but we're just like, Fuck this, we're done after nine holes.
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Also, I was we got so pinned waiting for you guys.
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I remember, and I would never do this.
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Like, I'm not the most respectful guy in the world, but I think I have some decent manners.
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I was so pinned, man.
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I was smoking darts inside the the clubhouse, and they're like, Sir, you gotta put that out.
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I'm like, Oh fuck, I thought I was on the patio still.
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So that year got out of hand.
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I think that's the hardest I've ever drank was was that year in Nashville.
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That was oh, yeah, insane, dude.
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Oh, that was so hot.
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That course was sick, though.
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Like right along that river.
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Um, there's like a dike on the side of it, like a big hill, sick course, just 110 degrees.
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Fuck.
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And that was that was when I don't I don't know if you know this, but I think you do you remember this.
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That was the last night when you know there was a uh a bag of trail mix in the house.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And we had got we had actually gotten it, acquired it from from someone at the bar, and no one had you know opened it or whatever.
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It was it was already open, but someone had given the boys this bag.
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They're like, hey, like you know, have this trail mix.
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Uh, you know, there might be a little micro dose in there for you.
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We're like, okay, yeah, sure.
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And nobody touched it all week.
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And it was midnight on Sunday night where I go into the trail mix because I was hungry and drunk, and I ended up reaching in there, and my god, was I on fucking Pluto by the time I remember someone looked at me.
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I know who it was, but I'm not gonna say names, and they're like, Did you uh did you just have some of that trail mix?
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I'm like, Oh yeah, they're like, How much uh how much did you take?
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I go, Well, I had a pretty good handful.
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Why?
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What's up?
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Uh they're like, uh, someone gave us to us, and that might have mushrooms in it.
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And oh my god, 30 minutes later, Ozzo, I I was I was hallucinating.
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I was ready 25 drinks deep, and I'm just sitting there, like, holy fuck.
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So that was uh that wasn't perfect.
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That's a hilarious story.
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I remember hearing that.
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I was like, Oh my god, you couldn't have slept the whole night.
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No, I didn't.
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I I went up to our room because you guys were flying out early the next morning, yeah.
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And your golf clubs ended up getting stolen, stolen, still gone, still gone, and we were staying in that section eight housing area of Nashville where they had some like you know, some newer developments, but we were in the hood, and whoever left before you just left the garage wide open, and someone just came in and just stole your club.
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So that was a eventful trip.
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Um, but yeah, man, that was uh we yeah.
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I think we're good on Nashville for a little while after that one.
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I mean 100%.
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We did our damage, it's almost like a Vegas spot, Jordo, where it's fun at once every maybe five, 10 years, you know.
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Yeah, that was when we were at Kid Rock's Honky Tonk, and the entire bar was watching us assholes.
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We were running the entire bar, we were in the middle of the dance floor having the band play thunderstruck on repeat.
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And every time, obviously, when you hear thunder, you take a drink, and the bartenders were in on it, the people that were running the bar back.
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So we were running out of beers like every three minutes, and they just kept running it back, just a tray of Miller lights, and they just plant them in the middle of the floor, and we'd be like, one more time, and the whole bar was in on it.
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That was I like I said, uh because we didn't golf and we just went down to Broadway every day, and that's such a beer drinking whatever drinking.
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You have to drink beer no matter what you're doing.
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It is, it's it's great though, because everyone down there is just they're there to get drunk and have a good time, like it's everyone's there.
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It's like a handshake agreement between everyone.
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We're all here to get a little banged up, drink, hammer some beers, and listen to some good music.
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And that's I mean, that's all you can do, and that's what we did.
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Yes, yeah, and aside from quarterback sneaking myself, uh, with that trail mix, it was it was a hell of a shift.
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Oh my god, thank god I had Dale the next day.
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He wasn't flying out till later, neither was I, because I would have been lost if I was alone.
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That would have been spooky.
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It was spooky enough because I always go on a date early, as is, and I got pinned with Dale the night before.
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Then you guys came in.
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So um I'm looking forward to it, Oswald this year.
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It should be pretty sweet.
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Chicago IL picking up the hats tomorrow.
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We got a Cubs game on the slate, obviously, a meat and cheese night on Thursday, Cubs game Friday, boat Saturday, out Sunday.
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Um, yeah, you gotta you gotta put your time with the with the loved ones uh on the other side of the puck this week.
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Maybe take her out for a nice meal, maybe cook.
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Uh, it's not like you're gonna be doing anything crazy, but uh they know you're gonna be licked uh for the better part of 72 hours, like we said.
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I think they're just at this point, you know, it's like my wife is just she just knows I'm not gonna be fun to be around when I get back.
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So that's like what makes her most mad.
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It's like she'll probably be trying to make me act normal on Sunday when I get back, and it's just you gotta take a few days after that trip.
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Yeah, yeah, you do.
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Uh I'm interested to see uh what lineup shows up.
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It's always funny too, because we have this we've literally had the golf trip group chat for over 10 years now, and to get guys to respond in there is like pulling teeth, and especially nowadays because everyone's so busy with their own lives and kids, it's not as active as it is, but you know, around this time of year, and especially a couple weeks prior, guys start making travel arrangements, they want to know what's going on.
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Uh, Rico and myself kind of set the lineup.
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Azzo, obviously, you've been added to the committee um over the years because Chiswick has stepped down.
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But it's always funny to see who's going to be coming in, what guys are still trying to move a couple different things around the chessboard to maybe sneak in for a night, maybe a little hey, how are you coming in hot on Saturday, or I'll be there Friday, boys?
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Uh, so one name I'm really interested to see.
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Uh, we've added them over the last year is is Dave Hackstall.
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Dane Jackson will be in attendance, but Oswald, do we do we think a guy like Dave Hackstall coming off a sweep and a loss out of the Western Conference finals, does he show face?
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Yeah, that's a great question.
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I would say for a man like Haxdall, I don't know what his you know, his family situation was like, Jordan.
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Like, does he need to see his kids?
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Is he looking to hang out with them and the family, or did he see them throughout the year?
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Maybe, right?
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Um, I would say it's a good, there's a decent chance we see him one night, right?
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I think so.
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Like easy to fly in, easy to fly out, just make one night.
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Um it helps our chances with Jackson being there, of course, because those two are boys.
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Um, but no, obviously you'd love to see Hack there.
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It's awesome that you know Jackson, Simmer and Chiz are coming.
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Um, almost feel like we should invite SMABES to just get those get all the boys there.
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I know.
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But uh yeah, it'll be good to it'll be good to talk shop with those guys.
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Um, I can't wait to see Chizzy talking it up with people out there and and to see what he's like because he I feel like he's getting so big time now.
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I love when I see him, he's just a little more big time than he was last time.
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Yeah, like he's getting to be like that like pissed off GM that's just big time, you know.
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Yes, and uh I don't know.
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I I like that storyline for Chiz.
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Yeah, Chisak is is always a competitor, um always a guy that can funnel the beers with the best of them.
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Always a little pissed off, he's always been that way, he's always been a just an ornery, angry bastard.
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I've lived with him, you know, three years at North Dakota.
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Uh, I know how he operates, so still one of my best friends.
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Yeah, he's he's funny, man.
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He he's uh you don't know if it's a bit or it's actually him, and I think it kind of it obviously shades to who he is, but he plays into the character and he always has.
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He's always been a man that goes against the grain.
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He obviously went to law school, just ask him, and he's willing to argue, and he's willing to take one of your points, even though he might agree in real time with you, he will debate you because that is just who he is.
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He just wants to be angry and he wants to be a little pissed off, and he wants that guy thrives in altercation, doesn't he?
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He really does.
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He's he's looking for it, and yeah, I mean that's what he does.
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It's it's it's fun to be around, but yeah, I mean, all those guys, everyone coming, Jordal.
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Um, it's gonna be a good turnout, you know.
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Yeah, it's 10 years down.
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I know we're missing some guys, but still a damn good turnout for the fellas.
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Yeah, Brock Besser, obviously in the mix.
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Uh, he always best is like I love best, but best is like the guy, he's like the girl that just wants to feel wanted.
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Like you he needs reassurance to to tell him how cool he is and why I want him on the trip, and then he books his stuff, right?
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He's not like a guy that's just like all in.
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He's like, should I come?
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Like, obviously, Brock, and if you're listening to this, of course you should come.
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But why, as a man that's almost 40 years old, do I need to beg you to come?
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Do I need to tell you how hot you look, how good your hair is, how many goals you scored, how you can do this, that.
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I don't why do I need to give you reassurance when you should just fucking come on the on the trip?
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Just book your ticket, man.
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Don't ask, you don't need me to tell you to come.
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Like, I don't need to be texting you saying, Hey, book the ticket, let's go.
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Like, just book it, be all in.
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Like, you didn't you didn't go to the world championship, just book the ticket.
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We know you probably have some friends' cousin's birthday party that you're missing, and we do appreciate you for missing that.
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But just book the damn ticket, best.
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All right, 100%.
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Yeah, and and thank you because we we will need your wallet later in the week.
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Troy Stetcher back in the mix, huge, spin off for the last two or three years, obviously playing in the Stanley Cup finals.
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That'll be sick to have Stetchy back in the mix.
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Thompson sounds like he's out, maybe could be a push.
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But Ozzo, I'm not worried about anyone else, I'm worried about my own game, and that's how everyone should think.
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But last year for me wasn't perfect, and I'll be the first one to admit that.
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I came in hot after right after the baseball trip, which was like a six or seven day runner.
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Spent a couple odd days in Tampa Bay waiting for you boys, had to drive from Atlanta all the way back down to Tampa Bay.
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And by the time I got through Ocala, Florida, and almost got tased and my ear bitten off by this crackhead inside of a 7-Eleven.
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Man, did I hit the wall?
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Oh man, it was bad.
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So I came in, I had a sore throat, which ended up turning into strep throat.
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I got on antibiotics.
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I that developed into an ear infection, and then from there, I almost went down with like I don't know if it was it wasn't pneumonia, but it it was the ear infection, the strep throat, and my body just completely shut down.
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And I was boozing like hard, obviously, yeah, on the antibiotics.
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I just felt weird the entire time.
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I had no voice.
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Man, so for me, that really humbled me.
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It it told me at 31 years old, you probably shouldn't do an 11 out of 14.
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So this year I've managed my game, I've used load management, but I've still played a few.
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I've I've gotten some reps in the last weeks, but I definitely feel better going into this year, hopefully.
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Uh with good health because man, it's not only was I battling all that, but then when you want to get in on the conversations and you have no voice, it's just miserable.
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Oh, that's the biggest battle I was gonna say, especially for a guy like me who has one of these whisper voices, so it doesn't take much for me to lose that voice.
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And Dusky loses his because he's screaming all night.
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Like I lose mine because yes, I am talking a lot, but I just have a soft voice and it goes easy.
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You gotta keep your voice for as long as you can, Jordan, because as soon as you can't hop in on the jokes and get in on that campfire when you're fucking when everyone's spitting game and you're all just dying laughing.
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If you can't step in on that and you've got some just voice that no one can hear, it's it's brutal.
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Yeah, and you know, I let alone I can't order a drink as a single guy.
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I can't even have a conversation if I need to do that.
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It's just brutal.
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And then the the worst part is when you're sitting in the hot stove late at night when all the fellas are just gathered up or early in the morning talking about the stung events that occurred.
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You're sitting there with with just nothing to give, which was it humbled me a lot.
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I was like, damn, this sucks.
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I'm just sitting here, I feel like a piece of shit.
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Obviously, I'm never gonna go home early, but I'm battling a lot right now for you boys.
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Um, I'm in the trenches, so yeah, we'll see, man.
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Um, I was definitely humbled last year, so it's uh I'm I'm ready to push, and that's what year 10 is about.
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So I can't wait to get there.
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I'm going in.
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I think I'm gonna go in Wednesday night because I don't wanna because it kills a whole day if I fly from here to Chicago.
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I don't I wouldn't get in till later unless I left real early.
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So I think uh I think as a pro I I might go in the night early.
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So Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday night.
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I'm thinking Wednesday night, yeah.
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Get in late, might have to.
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Yeah.
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Just go to the hotel room though.
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Don't go check out a few spots.
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No, no, no, no, no.
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I would I would just maybe just check out like a couple spots.
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Yeah, maybe dinner with my sister, shut it down, have six, go to bed, see see what's up.
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That city's, I mean, it's gonna be great.
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This is there's no better time to go into the guts of Chi Town than I can't wait to get back there.
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Yeah, so many options.
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Like, we don't even we don't know where we're gonna end up, right?
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Like, it's just kind of yeah, no, we don't.
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I'm interested to see how the houses because Rico always books the house, or the I guess this year, the Penter.
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I'm interested.
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It looks pretty sick on paper, but you never know.
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I love when the boys always give them shit.
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You know, Chiswick's gonna come and just bitch in this place.
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Sucks.
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I can't believe I paid this much for that.
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Are you fucking kidding me?
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I'm not paying you.
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Chiswick's gonna be rattled.
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Oh, yeah, he is gonna come in there just so negative.
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It's gonna be hilarious.
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It's nice and done, Dusky.
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You fucking idiot.
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Oh, dude.
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Yeah, it's gonna be great.
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All the boys under one roof.
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I think that's the best part of the trip.
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Uh, it's it's the best trip, I think, in sports.
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So looking forward to it, Azzo.
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Can't wait.
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Fella.
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But we got the Stanley Cup playoffs starting up here, my friend.
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Sorry, the Stanley Cup final, not the playoffs, but we got the we got the finals Tuesday going off the guts.
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What are we thinking in this series?
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Obviously, Vegas, Carolina.
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I just saw Carolina play half licked up in Montreal.
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They look really good.
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But if you're looking at this series and you're a betting man uh with your own chin, who are you looking at here?
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Fala, and what are some of the keys from both sides?
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Yeah, no, uh honestly, uh I kind of like the series.
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I I think it's exciting coming in.
00:21:14.319 --> 00:21:16.400
I mean, what is Carolina, Jordo?
00:21:16.480 --> 00:21:18.319
Like 12 and 1, 12 and 1.
00:21:18.559 --> 00:21:20.960
And Vegas is like 12 and 4.
00:21:21.200 --> 00:21:26.720
So you got two, I mean, hot teams they haven't lost in a while coming in.
00:21:26.799 --> 00:21:37.359
You'd like to think it's gonna be a great series, Jordo, and and Carolina gets over this hump of the Eastern Conference Finals, and you you like to think maybe maybe this is their chance.
00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:42.559
Um, but when you look at this, I just I just think you gotta go eye test.
00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:49.359
And when you watch these games, Jordo, it's just it's tough to think Carolina's gonna pull this off, right?
00:21:49.440 --> 00:21:57.200
Like you they I know they're really good, they have a really good decor, they're big on the back end, they're they're quick up front, they play a smart game.
00:21:57.440 --> 00:21:59.759
Um I just think with this Vegas team.
00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:05.359
And what they have, how they've been playing, and their goaltender.
00:22:05.680 --> 00:22:10.319
Like Carter Hart over Frederick Anderson for sure, right?
00:22:10.400 --> 00:22:12.240
Like, I think you have to say that.
00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:18.880
Like, like Carolina really, he hasn't Frederick Anderson hasn't really had to save them any games.
00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:21.920
You know, like Carter Hart's playing out of his mind right now.
00:22:22.799 --> 00:22:23.920
That guy's story, too.
00:22:24.000 --> 00:22:26.880
I know he's controversial, Jordo, but that guy's story.
00:22:26.960 --> 00:22:29.279
I mean, this guy got drugged through the mud.
00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:30.960
He's innocent.
00:22:31.039 --> 00:22:32.319
He was not guilty, people.
00:22:32.400 --> 00:22:34.480
So I don't know why everyone's so pissed off of him.
00:22:34.559 --> 00:22:36.000
He's in the NHL for a reason.
00:22:36.079 --> 00:22:37.759
Obviously, he was allowed to play.
00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:39.359
He went through hell and back.
00:22:39.519 --> 00:22:44.880
And now he's, I mean, I would say if he didn't go through that, I mean, he's probably the front runner for the con Smythe.
00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:50.799
I know everyone's saying that, but it's like, fuck, that would suck to go through what he went through, and people still hate him.
00:22:50.960 --> 00:22:56.960
But I think they've got that on like obviously, if you're a guy like Carter Hart, you're playing with that in your mind.
00:22:57.039 --> 00:23:01.200
Like, you got a little fire to your game, like, fuck these people, you know.
00:23:01.440 --> 00:23:02.720
And you got that on your side.
00:23:02.799 --> 00:23:05.119
I just think I would take him over Frederick Anderson.
00:23:05.440 --> 00:23:08.000
And I just, I mean, you never know, right?
00:23:08.160 --> 00:23:13.680
Like, like we just said, Carolina's 12-1, but I just think that's the difference there.
00:23:13.759 --> 00:23:21.839
And I just don't see Carolina's game matching up with Vegas very well because Vegas plays that hard, heavy, old school dump it in.
00:23:22.319 --> 00:23:22.799
Yeah.
00:23:23.039 --> 00:23:24.160
And they got skill.
00:23:24.319 --> 00:23:27.839
Like Eichel and Marner, and fuck, they're just a scary lineup.
00:23:28.079 --> 00:23:29.599
And Eichel is so good.
00:23:29.759 --> 00:23:36.079
Like Carolina's played some good teams, but they haven't played a center iceman like Jack Eichel on the other side.
00:23:36.160 --> 00:23:38.000
And he's gonna shut down an entire line.
00:23:38.079 --> 00:23:40.640
He's definitely gonna lock up whoever he's playing against.
00:23:40.720 --> 00:23:42.160
I'm I'm sure that's gonna be Aho.
00:23:42.480 --> 00:23:58.160
Like, that's such a mismatch there with Jack Eichel and how he defends and how good I think he's probably if they're not I if Vegas ends up winning just because of the media and everything and the attention, they're not gonna give the con Smitty to Carter Hurt, even though he deserves it and he should be.
00:23:58.319 --> 00:24:04.480
That's just how the left-wing media operates, and they probably don't want to cause even further distraction.
00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:09.039
So uh I would lean towards I mean, Mitchie Marner, Greedy Marner's been incredible too.
00:24:09.200 --> 00:24:14.319
I mean, let's not it's him or it's him or Eichel if Vegas wins, but Eichel has been so good.
00:24:14.480 --> 00:24:20.720
I mean, the way he can lock up the other team's opposition, like in that game four at the end of the game.
00:24:21.039 --> 00:24:23.759
Did you see when McKinnon they had the puck?
00:24:23.839 --> 00:24:27.599
It was either they were down one or Vegas had just scored an empty net.
00:24:27.839 --> 00:24:29.839
I'm pretty sure they were just down one, though.
00:24:30.079 --> 00:24:40.319
And Vegas was in the defensive zone, and McKinnon was doing like 19 different cutbacks, and he was trying to get away from Jack Eichel, and he he just bodied him in the wall, like his feet were quiet.
00:24:40.480 --> 00:24:47.039
He let McKinnon come to him, and then when he saw an opportunity where the puck was a little bit exposed, he went stick on stick, closed him off.
00:24:47.119 --> 00:24:51.680
The puck gets chipped out of the zone, they're able to change, and then the game is basically over.
00:24:52.079 --> 00:24:53.839
It's amazing how good he is.
00:24:53.920 --> 00:25:03.119
And I remember even talking to Nikki, my brother, after that series against Vegas, and he was just saying, I don't know what ICL is on, but the guy never gets tired, Ozzo.
00:25:03.519 --> 00:25:05.200
No, he's a he's a freak of nature.
00:25:05.279 --> 00:25:08.400
I mean, he always has been when he was 17 years old.
00:25:08.480 --> 00:25:12.640
He was like the youngest guy in the 17 team, and he came up and played with us, Giordo.
00:25:12.720 --> 00:25:19.039
And he comes up, and we'd been working out for two full, you know, two years every day, every fucking day at the program.
00:25:19.119 --> 00:25:20.559
Like, it's the strongest you ever are.
00:25:20.720 --> 00:25:29.839
And this kid comes in, and I think he was like third strongest guy on our team in terms of like power, he was power cleaning like 325 at 17 years old.
00:25:29.920 --> 00:25:32.960
He's a freak of nature, like he's he's insane.
00:25:33.039 --> 00:25:39.680
His his body knows all I mean, he did work hard, obviously, but it was just you know, he's got good genetics, of course, too.
00:25:39.759 --> 00:25:48.319
Like, he's quick out there, he's a big body, but he can skate like the wind, he can he can hang with any of those players, McKinnon, McDavid, any of those guys.
00:25:48.400 --> 00:25:56.559
He's just as fast as and yeah, I mean, I really like the player he's he's he's coming into and um that he's turning into.
00:25:56.720 --> 00:25:59.920
And I don't know, it's he's unbelievable to watch.
00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:01.039
It's it's crazy.
00:26:01.200 --> 00:26:02.480
Um I don't know.
00:26:02.559 --> 00:26:06.880
You used to think like AM34 was better than Eichel, but now it's like I don't know.
00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:09.279
I mean Eichel might be number one C.
00:26:09.519 --> 00:26:13.200
I mean, you even look at Jack Eichel in the 2015 entry-level draft.
00:26:13.359 --> 00:26:25.279
I throw out a tweet last week, and I wasn't saying that he should have been picked over Connor McDavid by any means, but of course that's how people took it in context because it's Twitter and everyone, including myself, is retarded.
00:26:25.519 --> 00:26:28.559
But the thing was, Ozzo, is Jack Eichel.
00:26:28.720 --> 00:26:35.599
All I was saying, and I said it in the tweet, Jack Eichel is a better two-way player than Connor McDavid.
00:26:35.920 --> 00:26:42.640
He really is, at least on at least on the defensive side, he is a better player than Connor McDavid.
00:26:42.720 --> 00:26:44.640
Now, can he do the things McDavid does?
00:26:44.720 --> 00:26:47.599
Does he have the same game-breaking ability?
00:26:47.839 --> 00:26:48.799
Probably not.
00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:51.519
He's probably better on the power play, McDavid, of course.
00:26:51.599 --> 00:26:56.640
He's obviously got the extra gear, even though I at Eichel at top speed, they're probably pretty similar.
00:26:56.799 --> 00:26:58.960
But I would say fast twitch just off the blocks.
00:26:59.039 --> 00:27:03.519
McDavid does have that little bit more of a get up and go in terms of being a Clydesdale.
00:27:03.759 --> 00:27:10.640
But all I'm saying, Ozo, is if you look at two-way players, it's way closer than you think.
00:27:10.799 --> 00:27:15.519
And Eichel is definitely better on the defensive side than Connor McDavid.
00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:16.720
For sure he is.
00:27:16.960 --> 00:27:20.400
For sure he is, and then also, like, I don't know, Jordo.
00:27:20.559 --> 00:27:23.920
You you think about this series, I'm sure I don't know if you feel the same.
00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:31.839
Like, if you're thinking Vegas is kind of the favorite coming into this one, but did care did did Colorado look terrible?
00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:36.160
Where were that was that the same team I watched kind of dust up the wild?
00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:42.400
Is Vegas that good, or was like so where Vegas got what happened?
00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:53.119
So where Vegas got so much better as every round went, they played against the Utah Mammoth, who the Utah Mammoth, say what you want about their team and their little bit of lack of experience.
00:27:53.359 --> 00:27:55.519
The fastest team out of the West this year.
00:27:55.680 --> 00:28:08.000
They really were the way they moved the puck, the way they had guys that could fly down the walls, the Gunthers, the Nikki Schmaltzes, the Kellers, the Cooleys, like they have some of the most elite skaters in their top nine.
00:28:08.079 --> 00:28:20.720
So the way that Vegas was able to manage that speed and then obviously played another quick young team like the Ducks, I think that really set in themselves and the self-belief that they can skate with the top teams in the West.
00:28:21.039 --> 00:28:33.119
And if you look at Vegas and the biggest difference between John Tortofella and Butch Cassidy, obviously the the change in the room of the voice, of course, but the neutral zone of the Vegas Knights has been incredible.
00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:40.640
Like you, if you saw that series, Martin Natius and when McKinnon was healthy, both those guys couldn't gallop through the neutral zone against him.
00:28:40.720 --> 00:28:42.000
There was no fucking space.
00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:48.880
So I think that's the biggest thing is when Colorado ran into Vegas, they just ran into a buzzsaw.
00:28:48.960 --> 00:28:58.240
They they had never seen a team up until that point play the neutral zone like the Vegas Golden Knights, and that I think is going to be the biggest difference in the cup final as well.
00:28:58.480 --> 00:29:04.640
But then it doesn't help, obviously, that Cale McCarr was hurt for the first two games, playing at 40% for the last two.
00:29:04.799 --> 00:29:10.720
McKinnon gets hurt in game three, plays half the game, and then the other guys, their role players and their side pieces didn't step up.
00:29:10.880 --> 00:29:15.920
Brock Nelson had an incredible year, but if you were asking even B Nelly, he'd be like, Ah, I wasn't great.
00:29:16.079 --> 00:29:17.839
And Val Nikushkin, he was hurt.
00:29:17.920 --> 00:29:26.720
So I just think it was they ran into a buzzsaw and they run out of gas, and they were hurt and they got swept, which is and it was over before they even knew it.
00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:29.039
I know it was it was just done.
00:29:29.599 --> 00:29:33.359
They were done for so quick, it was it was crazy to watch.
00:29:33.440 --> 00:29:34.880
Like it wasn't even close, Jordan.
00:29:35.119 --> 00:29:37.680
I mean, uh, it was in terms of these playoffs.
00:29:37.759 --> 00:29:42.000
Like, you look at these both these teams that are in the finals, the 12-1, 12 and 4.
00:29:42.079 --> 00:29:45.599
I mean, they fucking dummied everyone in the playoffs, it wasn't even close.
00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:47.839
Yeah, so why did that happen?
00:29:48.079 --> 00:29:53.200
Because this was a pretty close year in terms of all the teams were right among each other.
00:29:53.279 --> 00:29:55.599
There wasn't like a clear cut, oh, this team's the best.
00:29:55.680 --> 00:29:57.680
I guess Colorado was, yeah.
00:29:58.079 --> 00:30:03.680
They just got dusted up by the Vegas Golden Knights, who at one point were worried about missing the playoffs.
00:30:04.319 --> 00:30:08.400
Yeah, I mean, the team you're talking about a team that fired their coach with eight games left.
00:30:08.720 --> 00:30:16.880
There was that was a team that I went and watched in late March, and they played the Edmonton Oilers, and they look flat, they look stale, they didn't look good.
00:30:17.039 --> 00:30:19.200
I was like, is this team even gonna make the playoffs?
00:30:19.279 --> 00:30:25.279
I thought they were gonna make it, but I was like, they might be out in the first round, depending on who they play, and they just continually got better.
00:30:25.519 --> 00:30:30.799
And then you just see even Mark Stone playing probably under 70.
00:30:31.359 --> 00:30:32.720
You just realize how good he is.
00:30:32.799 --> 00:30:37.680
I mean, on that goal with teenage mutant ninja hurdle, just to put it in space.
00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:43.680
If I was a forward or even a defenseman, it's just be so fun to be on the ice with him.
00:30:43.759 --> 00:30:53.279
He just puts the puck in the best possible spots for you to skate underneath it with speed, the little bump plays, the way he can just get it off the wall and get it into the middle of the ice.
00:30:53.599 --> 00:31:01.119
Man, if that guy had half a back, not even a full back, we're talking about a half rack of a baby back rib.
00:31:01.359 --> 00:31:05.920
This guy would already have a thousand points, and he and he's pretty goddamn close.
00:31:06.160 --> 00:31:06.640
For sure.
00:31:06.720 --> 00:31:08.000
He's so fun to watch out there.
00:31:08.079 --> 00:31:08.799
He's like that.
00:31:08.880 --> 00:31:22.079
Uh it's like when you're playing, say you're in like Banham or high school, Jordo, and and you get like an old guy, old guy out there that used to play pro and he can't really skate anymore, but he's still fucking way better than everyone else out there.
00:31:22.160 --> 00:31:26.480
Yeah, because he's making those right plays, knows where to be, sticks in the right position.
00:31:26.640 --> 00:31:30.000
He can make those little um area passes.
00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:33.519
Um, that's exactly what Markstone looks like right now.
00:31:33.599 --> 00:31:38.480
He's just that old veteran out there that can't skate, but he's just smarter than every fucking guy on the ice.
00:31:38.720 --> 00:31:46.079
Yeah, that reminds me that Tony Hercus still skates in Madison at the pro skates, and he is the Markstone of those skates.
00:31:46.720 --> 00:31:52.400
There's always that guy putting the puck in the best areas possible, can't really move up and down the ice.
00:31:52.559 --> 00:31:56.319
Still, after the end of the scrimmage, you're playing five on five.
00:31:56.400 --> 00:31:59.359
Herc got one and three, and he won five two.
00:31:59.599 --> 00:32:03.920
Like he's just still butter out there, so that's that's a great comparison for sure.
00:32:04.160 --> 00:32:09.359
Yeah, yeah, he's fun to watch, and he just looks like I mean, he stoner's not even that old.
00:32:09.440 --> 00:32:09.920
What is he?
00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:11.279
Like 33, 34.
00:32:11.440 --> 00:32:12.480
Yeah, he's a 92.
00:32:12.559 --> 00:32:13.039
Yep.
00:32:13.839 --> 00:32:19.039
And it's he just looks like a caveman out there, just a hockey player through and through.
00:32:19.119 --> 00:32:23.279
Like, that's a guy you're gonna win some playoff hockey games with.
00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:26.480
Like, they just always have that look when he takes his bucket off.
00:32:26.559 --> 00:32:29.359
He's got like a little bald spot up top, but he's still got long hair.
00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:31.440
It's like fucking right, Stoner.
00:32:31.680 --> 00:32:32.000
Fuck it.
00:32:32.400 --> 00:32:34.799
Yeah, he's and he's not worried about that bald spot either.
00:32:34.880 --> 00:32:39.279
Well, when the cames off doesn't a lot of guys would be very self-conscious about it.
00:32:39.519 --> 00:32:44.000
Maybe guys would even be sliding over the pond to get that job done in Turkey, but he just embraces it.
00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:50.000
He'll sit in the penalty box with his dome piece off for two minutes, and he's not even he knows it's there, he's wearing it with pride.
00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:51.839
He's like, Fuck you guys do this thing.
00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:54.720
Most guys would be looking at you know, Garrett Rank or Wes McClay.
00:32:54.880 --> 00:32:56.880
Hey, fella, fella, get me my fucking bucket, you know.
00:32:56.960 --> 00:32:58.319
It's a little insecure here.
00:32:58.400 --> 00:33:00.079
No, he's just fucking rocket, he doesn't give a shit.
00:33:00.160 --> 00:33:01.920
He's got a little cul-de-sac on the top.
00:33:02.079 --> 00:33:04.480
Yeah, it's it's uh it's cool to see.
00:33:04.559 --> 00:33:06.240
He's just a hockey player through and through.
00:33:06.319 --> 00:33:09.759
But also on the other side, the Carolina Hurricanes, man.
00:33:10.079 --> 00:33:15.039
This team, I know they're a bunch of nerds, but they're a really good cohesive group.
00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:21.359
And when I saw them play game four in Montreal, that was the best display.
00:33:21.599 --> 00:33:28.000
And I know Montreal was tired, they ran out of gas, but that was the best display of wall work I've ever seen.
00:33:28.319 --> 00:33:35.920
Montreal was almost trying to play like Carolina does really aggressive, pinch off the walls, take away the middle, you know, from the outside.
00:33:36.160 --> 00:33:48.079
But the way that the wingers were just getting the puck off the walls, making no-look plays out of their own end, like to the far dot, even to the near side dot with their forwards, their winger or center slashing across.
00:33:48.160 --> 00:33:57.119
I mean, it was no-look play after no-look play, right on the tape, even in the neutral zone when you know Montreal was overcommitting and getting outside the dots.
00:33:57.200 --> 00:33:58.319
It was right into the middle of the ice.
00:33:58.400 --> 00:34:02.319
It was odd man rush after odd man rush, Blake, Stankhoven, Hall.
00:34:02.400 --> 00:34:04.960
You forget how many good players they've added over the years, too.
00:34:05.039 --> 00:34:07.200
Like Nikolai Ehlers is nasty, man.
00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:19.840
He's nasty, and that you know takes a lot of pressure off a guy like Svechnikov or some of these guys that you know played higher up in the lineup before, but now they can kind of relax a little bit and they just have that depth.
00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:33.599
And this team, man, I don't know if they have the juice and the mojo to get it done against a team like Vegas, but in terms of just a cohesive group, I've never seen a team snap it like that that late in playoffs.
00:34:33.760 --> 00:34:34.800
It was clinical, man.
00:34:34.960 --> 00:34:36.239
Montreal had no answer.
00:34:36.400 --> 00:34:42.639
Their course that game, they probably spent 10 10% of the game in Carolina's defensive zone.
00:34:42.719 --> 00:34:49.039
Like Montreal was never on the attack, it was they silenced the entire building, they were just on their heels the entire time.
00:34:49.360 --> 00:34:50.719
It was like almost sad to watch.
00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:52.000
You're like a Montreal fan.
00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:52.800
You're like, I know.
00:34:53.440 --> 00:35:00.639
It's never a good sign when the the Bell Center, the loudest cheer of the night, is on a three-on-five penalty kill because you get you've iced the puck.
00:35:00.719 --> 00:35:04.639
Like it's just that's never good if that's the biggest cheer at the Bell Center.
00:35:05.119 --> 00:35:06.400
Yeah, yeah.
00:35:06.559 --> 00:35:13.599
I mean, and and I mean, good for Montreal, they had a good season, but boy, did they get us exposed at the end of it.
00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:17.679
I I I know they ran out of gas, but yeah, they got exposed.
00:35:17.840 --> 00:35:20.239
Uh what did you think about Lane Hudson in the end of that?
00:35:20.400 --> 00:35:31.519
Because wasn't wasn't Mike Matheson kind of playing more minutes than Lane Hudson at the end of this series, and I don't know if Lane Hudson was injured, he was just kind of he might have been breaking down a little bit.
00:35:31.760 --> 00:35:41.840
I think he was breaking down, I think, and especially the way he plays too, Ozzo, when you're up and down the sheet and you're east west, board to board, goal line to goal line.
00:35:42.079 --> 00:35:43.840
I mean, that takes a lot out of you.
00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:52.320
And when you're playing with that big of a motor, and especially later in that series too, when he was trying to force it a little bit to get his team back, you know, you're trying to do too much.
00:35:52.400 --> 00:35:54.159
You're you're trying to go every shift.
00:35:54.239 --> 00:36:02.480
I mean, even like a guy like Daryl Sador once told me when he was coaching me in the Chicago Wolves, he looked at me, he's like, Schmaltz, you can't go every shift.
00:36:02.639 --> 00:36:06.480
And what he meant by that is you can't lug the mail every shift and try to go end to end.
00:36:06.559 --> 00:36:08.639
You're you're gonna run out of steam, you have to pick your spots.
00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:11.360
So that's where I think Lane Hudson ran out of gas.
00:36:11.840 --> 00:36:19.199
So he was doing too much because he cares so much and wanted his team to get over the hump of the beast of Carolina.
00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:25.280
He physically just ran out of steam, and Mike Matheson was more of a obviously a calming presence.
00:36:25.440 --> 00:36:30.480
He's always played a steady two-way game, leaning towards the defensive side, less movement out there.
00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:39.119
So, yeah, to answer your question in a in a long form, I I simply just think he ran out of 87 on Letted, my friend, and that was kind of it.
00:36:39.360 --> 00:36:41.119
Yeah, that's kind of what I saw too.
00:36:41.199 --> 00:36:43.119
A little bit like Quinn Hughes does sometimes.
00:36:43.199 --> 00:36:47.920
It's like, yeah, you gotta give these guys rest sometimes, or else they're gonna break down.
00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:52.960
Like they're not robots, they're and and when they're playing that much regular season, too.
00:36:53.039 --> 00:36:55.679
It's like fuck, not gonna go through playoffs.
00:36:55.920 --> 00:36:57.679
There's just gotta be a happy medium there.
00:36:57.760 --> 00:37:01.920
And then I mean, who would have seen too to go back to the Carolina Hurricanes, Drodo?
00:37:02.159 --> 00:37:03.119
Who would have seen?
00:37:03.199 --> 00:37:14.880
Because I always look, I don't know about you, but after every game, I just I like checking time on ice just to see who like leads who who's the coach thrown out to the most, you know, who leads time on ice.
00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:22.639
That probably means you know, this guy played the best, and throughout these playoffs, Carolina's been playing Keandra Miller.
00:37:23.119 --> 00:37:25.360
That's their that's their that's their top D.
00:37:25.679 --> 00:37:26.719
That's their top D right now.
00:37:26.800 --> 00:37:30.239
And they got Jacob Slavin on the team, both Americans.
00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:36.400
Jacob Slavin's the Olympian, but it certainly seems like Keandra Miller's their number one defenseman right now.
00:37:36.639 --> 00:37:38.320
Yeah, he he certainly is.
00:37:38.480 --> 00:37:45.199
He's I mean, the and now he's starting to reap the the mainstream wave of it's always funny, Oslo.
00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:47.760
Like the guy's played really well all playoff.
00:37:47.840 --> 00:37:51.039
He's actually had a really sneaky good year, too, in the regular season.
00:37:51.119 --> 00:38:06.320
But isn't it always funny when one person in the media in the at this time it was Wayne Gretzky, 99, said how good Keandre Miller's been in this series in all playoffs, and then they obviously hear 99 say that, and then everyone jumps on the Keandre Miller train.
00:38:06.480 --> 00:38:10.960
Like he's been here the whole time, he's been a really good defenseman throughout the playoffs.
00:38:11.039 --> 00:38:14.400
He's been, like you said and alluded to, their number one defenseman.
00:38:14.480 --> 00:38:30.320
I just always think it's so funny when media really didn't give him any recognition for the first two and a half rounds, and then a guy like Wayne Gretzky, probably the greatest player of all time, says something, and then it's like they're on their knees just sucking Keandre Miller's bench.
00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:34.480
So it's like, yeah, I I get it, but he's been great.
00:38:34.559 --> 00:38:41.920
And the thing is, also, too, if you look at you speaking about Carolina and their minutes, none of their defensemen play over like 22 a night, they're like 20, 21.
00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:43.840
Like that's they're all right around that, yeah.
00:38:44.079 --> 00:38:45.760
And they're all fresh, you know.
00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:50.159
They're all fresh, none of them look tired or bagged out there or worn down.
00:38:50.400 --> 00:38:52.800
They all look fresh, they all look good.
00:38:53.039 --> 00:38:55.119
So that's certainly gonna help coming into this.
00:38:55.199 --> 00:38:58.480
I just don't think Vegas is that beat down either.
00:38:58.639 --> 00:39:00.639
Like, like, how good has Gossip Spear been?
00:39:00.960 --> 00:39:02.079
Oh, unbelievable.
00:39:02.159 --> 00:39:03.840
It's like this guy's still doing it.
00:39:04.079 --> 00:39:05.440
He's also got his buddy.
00:39:05.599 --> 00:39:07.039
No, they that was a different team.
00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:08.559
Um, Mark Jankowski.
00:39:08.719 --> 00:39:12.559
He played for Providence, I think, won the national championship after got a spear.
00:39:12.719 --> 00:39:13.039
Yep.
00:39:13.199 --> 00:39:15.119
Um, he's been playing well too.
00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:16.400
I mean, out of nowhere.
00:39:16.480 --> 00:39:22.320
Like, he was he I remember watching that kid when he got out of college, I don't know, 10 years ago.
00:39:22.480 --> 00:39:25.599
I was like, Oh, he's probably gonna be in the American League pretty soon.
00:39:25.840 --> 00:39:30.719
Yeah, I mean he was a first-round pick the same year I was like two or three slots before me.
00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:37.760
And I remember at the draft, there were like the the insiders and the experts were like, Oh, this kid's a little bit of a stretch, he's coming out of Montreal.
00:39:37.840 --> 00:39:44.639
He played prep school, and then he goes obviously to Calgary, works his way up through the minor leagues, has a pretty good run there.
00:39:44.719 --> 00:39:54.239
And then Oswald, like two years ago, he was in Milwaukee, he was playing in the jungle, and he had to work himself all the way back to the show, and now he's playing third line, fourth line, he's playing second power play.
00:39:54.480 --> 00:39:55.440
He's been really good.
00:39:55.679 --> 00:40:01.599
Carolina is so good at finding those players that other teams, for whatever reason, just let go.
00:40:01.920 --> 00:40:09.199
Like, how dumb was it of Steve Eiserman and the Detroit Red Wings to let go of Shane Gossespare after he had a 60-point season?
00:40:09.360 --> 00:40:16.320
Like, you couldn't pay that guy four million dollars, and then Carolina swoops up and pays him, you know, just a shade under four for four years.
00:40:16.400 --> 00:40:19.440
They get him, they get stank of it on a team-friendly deal.
00:40:19.679 --> 00:40:21.280
Ealers doesn't break the bank.
00:40:21.360 --> 00:40:29.519
Then you have a guy like Jackson Blake locked up long term for you know minimal money for how his produce just production, Taylor Hall to a former MVP.
00:40:29.679 --> 00:40:40.400
If you look at their team and and the makeup of it, it's like they've gotten some really good players at Nordstrom Rack that were just kind of hanging around that other teams just let go for nothing.
00:40:40.639 --> 00:40:42.960
Yeah, yeah, they've capitalized on that.
00:40:43.039 --> 00:40:46.400
And you gotta feel happy for a guy like Rob Brindemore.
00:40:46.480 --> 00:40:53.920
I mean, that guy's you know, you always respect him, and I'm happy he's he's back in the NHL, the Stanley Cup finals.
00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:56.480
Um, because didn't he win it with him as a player?
00:40:56.719 --> 00:41:01.519
Yep, hasn't been back as a coach, but now he's back as a coach, so you're happy for him.
00:41:01.599 --> 00:41:06.239
Yeah, I mean, they're a great team, they're a great team.
00:41:06.400 --> 00:41:10.960
I just I still for whatever reason there's that lurking, yeah.
00:41:11.119 --> 00:41:16.960
There's that there's that thing in the air that's just like uh I don't feel confident about them.
00:41:17.199 --> 00:41:24.639
I know, yeah, and especially going against the beast, too, of the bad boys of the Vegas Gold Knights, everything that they have.
00:41:24.880 --> 00:41:26.239
Yeah, it's gonna be interesting.
00:41:26.320 --> 00:41:31.360
I I'm I'm curious to see what it goes back to Vegas as.
00:41:31.440 --> 00:41:32.320
Is it one one?
00:41:32.559 --> 00:41:34.000
Is it two nothing Vegas?
00:41:34.079 --> 00:41:35.440
Is it two nothing Carolina?
00:41:35.599 --> 00:41:40.639
I mean, that's a hard building to play in, and that style Vegas has not seen a style like this.
00:41:40.719 --> 00:41:57.840
It's shot volume, it's throw it in your face, it's go to work, it's very demanding, it's all over the place, it's young legs, it's and it's kind of matched up against the veteran chess players that just snuck themselves into the playoffs and all of a sudden got some mojo going and they're ready to go.
00:41:58.000 --> 00:42:02.159
So, yeah, it's um I think it's gonna come down to the goaltending.
00:42:02.239 --> 00:42:02.960
I really do.
00:42:03.119 --> 00:42:08.239
I I think the Carolina Hurricanes is as good as Dobush played, he ran out of steam a little bit.
00:42:08.400 --> 00:42:14.480
They haven't seen a guy kick like this either when they need a timely save on the other hand of the Vegas Gold Knights.
00:42:14.719 --> 00:42:17.920
Yeah, I guess Freddie Anderson's save percentage is 931.
00:42:18.000 --> 00:42:18.800
That's pretty good.
00:42:19.119 --> 00:42:20.960
But he's also facing 15 a night.
00:42:21.039 --> 00:42:22.159
Like no shots.
00:42:22.239 --> 00:42:22.639
It's crazy.
00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:23.119
I know.
00:42:23.360 --> 00:42:25.440
Carter Hart's at 924.
00:42:25.840 --> 00:42:26.400
Yeah.
00:42:26.800 --> 00:42:29.039
I just trust him more right now for some reason.
00:42:29.119 --> 00:42:29.679
I just trust him.
00:42:29.840 --> 00:42:30.400
I do too.
00:42:30.559 --> 00:42:33.920
Yeah, like so gun to your chin.
00:42:35.199 --> 00:42:39.199
Vegas is your pick, but how many games, fella?
00:42:40.320 --> 00:42:41.360
I think six.
00:42:41.599 --> 00:42:44.000
Yeah, that's kind of what I'm le 4-2.
00:42:44.480 --> 00:42:45.039
That's my guess.
00:42:45.360 --> 00:42:46.239
4-2, yeah.
00:42:46.400 --> 00:42:48.719
Maybe 1-1 leaving Carolina.
00:42:48.960 --> 00:42:50.880
Vegas gets two at home.
00:42:51.599 --> 00:42:55.599
Maybe they so that would be 3-1-4.
00:42:56.000 --> 00:42:57.760
That'd be a 3-1 and then go back.
00:42:57.840 --> 00:42:58.079
Yeah.
00:42:58.960 --> 00:42:59.119
Yeah.
00:42:59.360 --> 00:42:59.840
I like that.
00:42:59.920 --> 00:43:00.800
That I like that too.
00:43:01.039 --> 00:43:01.840
I'd be happy with that.
00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:05.360
Like, when you look at Carolina, Dorotho, who is their best player?
00:43:05.599 --> 00:43:06.480
Like, who is it?
00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:09.440
You gotta take one guy off the team.
00:43:09.519 --> 00:43:10.239
Who are you taking?
00:43:10.400 --> 00:43:13.280
They're just so committee driven.
00:43:13.360 --> 00:43:14.719
Like, you forget about Jarvis.
00:43:14.960 --> 00:43:17.519
You you you forget about, and he's a penalty killer too.
00:43:17.920 --> 00:43:18.320
He's really good.
00:43:18.960 --> 00:43:19.360
He's really good.
00:43:20.639 --> 00:43:28.320
If I'm picking one player on the Carolina Hurricanes, that's so tough.
00:43:28.880 --> 00:43:30.480
Ealers, I think.
00:43:31.280 --> 00:43:36.480
I think I think I'm going Ealers or Stank oven, but I maybe maybe stanky.
00:43:36.800 --> 00:43:37.679
Maybe I think it's stay.
00:43:37.760 --> 00:43:38.320
I'm going stanky.
00:43:38.480 --> 00:43:39.840
I'm going probably stanky.
00:43:39.920 --> 00:43:40.719
That's what I would pick.
00:43:40.960 --> 00:43:41.920
Yeah, I think I'm going to.
00:43:42.000 --> 00:43:43.360
I mean, he's got nine goals.
00:43:43.599 --> 00:43:44.239
It's close.
00:43:44.320 --> 00:43:47.920
It's not like it's not like Vegas, where you're like, you're taking you're taking ike.
00:43:48.239 --> 00:43:48.639
Yeah.
00:43:48.880 --> 00:43:49.199
Yeah.
00:43:49.440 --> 00:43:51.199
No, I I think it's stank oven.
00:43:51.519 --> 00:43:54.079
That's and that's a winger, too, right?
00:43:54.159 --> 00:43:55.199
It's not even a centerman.
00:43:55.280 --> 00:43:56.559
So that's a little different.
00:43:57.440 --> 00:44:04.559
Because matchup wise, you No, you'd you'd like your best player to be a center or a D.
00:44:04.719 --> 00:44:04.880
Yeah.
00:44:05.280 --> 00:44:06.159
We're taking a winger.
00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:07.280
So that's yeah, I don't know.
00:44:07.360 --> 00:44:08.800
I mean, they have a ton of good wingers.
00:44:08.880 --> 00:44:09.360
That's a thing.
00:44:09.519 --> 00:44:12.159
In Carolina, they've they're all kind of like the same kind of player.
00:44:19.920 --> 00:44:22.800
He he's got to be one of the best third line centers in the league.
00:44:22.960 --> 00:44:23.440
For sure.
00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:27.679
I mean, Bill Carlson, I mean, he's in he's so good on the defensive side of the pocket.
00:44:27.840 --> 00:44:28.000
Yeah.
00:44:28.239 --> 00:44:28.800
They're scratching.
00:44:29.280 --> 00:44:31.360
The middle of Vegas is fucking terrifying.
00:44:31.599 --> 00:44:32.239
Yeah.
00:44:32.639 --> 00:44:34.639
And they're D, too.
00:44:34.800 --> 00:44:40.960
Like if they get that Dylan Croglin kid that was in the minors the whole year, I mean, what a series he had against Colorado.
00:44:41.039 --> 00:44:43.199
He scores to open up the series.
00:44:43.360 --> 00:44:51.519
And then he has the game clinching assist to Cole Smith in front of the cage to make it 2-0, which was ultimately the game winner against Colorado in game four.
00:44:51.679 --> 00:44:57.360
So if you're looking at just contributions and then look at even Vegas' fourth line center, I mean it's Nikki Dowd.
00:44:57.599 --> 00:44:59.280
Is he the best fourth line center in the league?
00:44:59.360 --> 00:45:00.079
I would say yes.
00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:01.440
Right now, yeah, for sure.
00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:02.800
For sure, right?
00:45:03.039 --> 00:45:09.599
It certainly looks like there's just whatever reason about Nikki Dowd, it just looks like he's trying harder than everyone else out there.
00:45:09.840 --> 00:45:10.159
So hard.
00:45:10.480 --> 00:45:13.679
Whenever he's out there, he's trying harder than anyone else.
00:45:13.920 --> 00:45:20.960
Yeah, he it just it looks like it's just very hard work for him to get from the goal line to the top of the circles.
00:45:21.199 --> 00:45:23.440
And he does battle though.
00:45:23.519 --> 00:45:28.719
He is I do not want to, I do not you do not want to find yourself in a corner battle with that guy.
00:45:28.880 --> 00:45:31.920
No trying to pick a puck out of there, like fuck.
00:45:32.079 --> 00:45:33.920
He's he's he's relentless.
00:45:34.079 --> 00:45:35.280
He's just one of those guys too.
00:45:35.360 --> 00:45:37.280
You just know tries way too hard in practice.
00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:38.400
Oh, way too hard.
00:45:38.480 --> 00:45:39.679
He's going hard in summer.
00:45:39.840 --> 00:45:42.480
You're getting pissed off at him like, buddy, fucking July.
00:45:42.639 --> 00:45:44.000
Yeah, out of my face.
00:45:44.639 --> 00:45:45.440
He's going that hard.
00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:46.880
I've been in those skates with him.
00:45:46.960 --> 00:45:47.840
Yes, it does suck.
00:45:47.920 --> 00:45:49.119
He's going way too hard.
00:45:49.280 --> 00:45:50.719
That's all he knows.
00:45:51.679 --> 00:45:54.000
Yeah, that that they're gonna be tough to beat, man.
00:45:54.079 --> 00:45:59.440
They they really are, and especially with the mojo with torts and the confidence he's given Carter Hart.
00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:02.079
I'm I'm interested to see how this goes.
00:46:02.159 --> 00:46:04.239
So we got a great series coming up.
00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:07.760
Azo also, too, just wanted to touch on it.
00:46:07.920 --> 00:46:09.280
The ball has been pretty good.
00:46:09.360 --> 00:46:10.000
The association.
00:46:10.079 --> 00:46:12.719
I know we don't have a ton of NBA fans here.
00:46:13.119 --> 00:46:17.840
Most of them rightfully so, call NBA guys soft, pussies, woke, this and that.
00:46:17.920 --> 00:46:19.679
But the NBA playoffs have been pretty good.
00:46:19.760 --> 00:46:21.599
That it was a nice game seven last night.
00:46:21.679 --> 00:46:23.199
Uh OKC and the Spurs.
00:46:23.519 --> 00:46:24.239
That was fun.
00:46:24.400 --> 00:46:28.079
And then we got Spurs in New York, man.
00:46:28.159 --> 00:46:31.199
I mean, that city, New York City, is gonna be buzzing, dude.
00:46:31.360 --> 00:46:31.760
Buzzing.
00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:47.599
Like, I remember talking to someone in New York City when we had a show there in late April, and I was like, if you're looking at New York sports, and every team is in the final or wins, what's the biggest one?
00:46:47.760 --> 00:46:59.039
Yankees, obviously, you got Giants, Jets, you got Rangers, Islanders, those don't really matter, but you also have the Mets, which again don't matter either.
00:46:59.199 --> 00:47:09.199
But they were saying that it if the New York Knicks win or won, that that is the that's the biggest one, which is crazy over the Yankees, and that was like the general consensus from from all the New Yorkers.
00:47:09.440 --> 00:47:10.079
Was it really?
00:47:10.239 --> 00:47:16.559
Yeah, I would have thought the Yankees, but they yeah, I've heard I've heard because they haven't won in so long.
00:47:16.639 --> 00:47:18.239
I mean, when's the last time the Knicks have won?
00:47:18.320 --> 00:47:22.400
I know they've won one, what was it like 50, 60 years ago or something?
00:47:22.559 --> 00:47:24.000
I think it was like 60 years ago, yeah.
00:47:24.239 --> 00:47:28.719
I think the last time they were in the final was with like John Starks, Patty Ewing, but they never won.
00:47:29.360 --> 00:47:33.199
So oh, I just they got a chance.
00:47:33.360 --> 00:47:39.360
I thought if the Thunder won, they would kind of roll over the Knicks, but the Spurs team is young.
00:47:39.519 --> 00:47:43.440
Um, it's just you gotta get past that fucking alien Wemby.
00:47:43.760 --> 00:47:51.840
I mean, if you don't like watching basketball, I get it, but if you like sports, you gotta turn on these Spurs games with this Wemby, this Wembin Yama.
00:47:52.239 --> 00:47:55.280
I mean, he is it's hilarious watching him, Jordan.
00:47:55.519 --> 00:47:56.639
Doesn't he look like he's human out there?
00:47:56.719 --> 00:47:57.760
You're like, what is this guy?
00:47:57.840 --> 00:48:01.440
He's any and he can shoot threes, he's shooting from the logo.
00:48:01.920 --> 00:48:03.760
This guy's nuts, he's not even a human.
00:48:03.840 --> 00:48:13.280
Uh so he did that trip with the monks where he spent three weeks in silence, he was dribbling a basketball up a mountain for like 14 hours straight.
00:48:13.440 --> 00:48:14.639
Nothing about this guy makes sense.
00:48:14.719 --> 00:48:17.920
I'm pretty sure he was just built in a petri dish in a lab somewhere.
00:48:18.320 --> 00:48:21.599
He actually lists his height, he tries to as shorter than he is.
00:48:21.679 --> 00:48:24.079
I mean, just nothing about this guy makes sense.
00:48:24.239 --> 00:48:26.400
And you know, it wasn't like a legacy game for him.
00:48:26.639 --> 00:48:30.719
A lot of his teammates did step up in that game seven, but he still had a smooth 22 piece.
00:48:30.880 --> 00:48:42.719
He looked good, he got through, and you know, San Antonio, just the organization in general, has been such a well-oiled machine, uh, no diddy, for the last 20-30 years with Greg Popovich and just their scouting staff.
00:48:42.800 --> 00:48:50.320
So it's it's a great organization, and they always recruit, and it just seems like they always get these guys that that aren't knuckleheads, doesn't it seem like that?
00:48:50.400 --> 00:49:00.719
Yeah, it's like yes, they get they get the respectable, you know, just dogs that want to play basketball, not the guys that are in it for the Cuban link change and the bad bitches, and yes, they stay out of trouble.
00:49:00.960 --> 00:49:06.800
They're like the the good, they're like the Yankees of uh of the NBA, a little bit, you know.
00:49:06.880 --> 00:49:13.039
They just they're there for basketball, the women are fat, you know, in the crowd.
00:49:13.360 --> 00:49:14.800
Chuck says it all the time.
00:49:14.960 --> 00:49:16.239
You're not there for the women.
00:49:16.400 --> 00:49:21.360
No, food's probably some good Mexican food outside of that, probably not much.
00:49:21.599 --> 00:49:23.840
Yes, you're there to win basketball games.
00:49:24.079 --> 00:49:25.280
That city sucks.
00:49:25.440 --> 00:49:26.000
Oh my god.
00:49:26.239 --> 00:49:27.199
Oh, it's brutal.
00:49:27.440 --> 00:49:30.719
The two years that I was there on the and I love when Chuck says that ain't a river.
00:49:30.800 --> 00:49:33.519
The talk about the riverbog, that's a dirty old creek.
00:49:33.679 --> 00:49:40.159
All those good, beautiful, bad, he's always says the good, beautiful, fat women of San Antonio eating churros.
00:49:40.559 --> 00:49:41.679
That's exactly what it is.
00:49:41.760 --> 00:49:45.840
That city sucks, but the basketball, the games are fun to go to.
00:49:46.079 --> 00:49:52.400
But holy shit, man, that city is just fucking fat, ugly, and I don't know what you do with that city.
00:49:52.480 --> 00:49:53.519
You might just blow it up.
00:49:53.599 --> 00:49:57.760
You know, it's like one of the top five or six biggest cities in the US.
00:49:58.000 --> 00:49:59.039
Yeah, I just saw that.
00:49:59.360 --> 00:50:03.440
I just saw a list of the the most populous cities in the U.S.
00:50:03.519 --> 00:50:04.880
and San Antonio is up there.
00:50:04.960 --> 00:50:07.599
I was like, what that many people in San Antonio?
00:50:07.760 --> 00:50:12.320
Because the downtown is not it's not like a big city downtown.
00:50:12.559 --> 00:50:27.440
No, it's just so spread out that there's you know you drive 30 miles any direction, and they still consider it San Antonio, and it's just like the shitty old, you know, it's like an outlet mall or a big shopping area, and it's the same shit.
00:50:27.519 --> 00:50:38.960
It's you know, H E B, which is the grocery store, and then you got a Costco, probably right next to it, a Bucky's, another gas station, and then like a beef jerky factory where everyone goes and just farts and picks up some jack lynx.
00:50:39.119 --> 00:50:40.159
Like, it's disgusting, man.
00:50:40.239 --> 00:50:41.280
It really is.
00:50:41.519 --> 00:50:44.079
It's gross, and then there's like some shitty Mexican place.
00:50:44.239 --> 00:50:46.320
Oh that place sucks.
00:50:46.559 --> 00:50:49.599
That was the place that was the place that was my car got broken into.
00:50:49.679 --> 00:50:52.000
Like I was there for four months, it got broken into three times.
00:50:52.079 --> 00:50:54.400
I'm like, at this point, just fucking steal it.
00:50:54.480 --> 00:50:55.840
Like, I didn't want it.
00:50:56.159 --> 00:50:57.599
Take it, fucking take it.
00:50:57.840 --> 00:51:03.679
Breaking my back window every guy every other week, finding nothing in there, and then just leaving the glass everywhere.
00:51:03.760 --> 00:51:05.280
It's like, Jesus Christ, what is it?
00:51:05.360 --> 00:51:06.159
What's up with this city?
00:51:06.320 --> 00:51:08.159
Just leave the doors and windows open next time.
00:51:08.239 --> 00:51:08.880
They won't break.
00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:11.119
Yeah, that place, man.
00:51:11.199 --> 00:51:14.400
It's uh I got a special bone to pick with Man Antonio.
00:51:14.480 --> 00:51:18.880
That place is just yeah, I know, but that would be cool to be in New York for these games for sure.
00:51:19.039 --> 00:51:22.719
Do you see those court those courtside tickets were going for like 300,000?
00:51:23.039 --> 00:51:25.840
300 for I saw 500k for what?
00:51:25.920 --> 00:51:34.000
Like, who so you're telling me when I watch this game, like a celebrity can't afford a$500,000 ticket, right?
00:51:34.239 --> 00:51:35.920
Like that's like a billionaire or something.
00:51:36.079 --> 00:51:36.960
That's a billionaire, yeah.
00:51:37.039 --> 00:51:38.800
Yeah, like$500,000?
00:51:39.119 --> 00:51:42.880
Like an actor, like they're not they don't even have enough money to buy that ticket, right?
00:51:43.039 --> 00:51:43.760
Like, no chance.
00:51:44.079 --> 00:52:03.360
No, like Timothy Chalet, no, no, but I think what those like real celebrities do is they have deals with Dolan and Madison Square Garden where they'll probably come to an agreement agreement of we'll give you these tickets at face value just because we want the clout in there, you know what I mean.
00:52:03.599 --> 00:52:08.719
So if the if the face value is 20,000 on the wood for the final, they'll pay that, you know what I mean?
00:52:08.880 --> 00:52:18.079
Yeah, I was wondering if it was like an agent deal, like you know, call her call up RE gold and tell him, Hey, like, buddy, if you actually like me, you'll get me these tickets to the next game.
00:52:18.400 --> 00:52:24.320
But I I I can't even see an agent dropping 500k on no these tickets, you know.
00:52:24.719 --> 00:52:34.480
But yeah, you might be right, they might like those, they want those people in there because there's always celebrities at Knicks games, and I saw those tickets, and I was like, What are these celebrities gonna be sitting off the front row?
00:52:34.559 --> 00:52:36.719
Like, yeah, I don't know about that.
00:52:37.119 --> 00:52:39.039
I know that was a crazy thing, too.
00:52:39.119 --> 00:52:47.840
And we when I was in in Diddy Wood and I went to that Theo Vaughn show, we obes is good buddies with Connolly, and we were just we hung out with him afterwards, it was cool.
00:52:47.920 --> 00:52:50.320
And then, like, two nights later, I was like, Yeah, that was cool.
00:52:50.400 --> 00:52:52.719
I was you know, I've met him before, whatever.
00:52:53.039 --> 00:52:56.719
And then two nights later, he's on the wood with Leo at the Lakers game.
00:52:56.800 --> 00:53:03.280
I'm like, all right, that's you know, that's it's a little cooler than hanging out with Jay Swish and Shane O'Brien, but you know, I thought we were, you know, made him laugh at least a little bit.
00:53:03.360 --> 00:53:08.719
Yeah, yeah, it's like a good time with you guys, but yeah, I'm gonna go uh go hang out with Leo.
00:53:08.880 --> 00:53:09.440
He's got Lee.
00:53:09.599 --> 00:53:14.559
Hey, he's got Leo on the calendar the same week he's got Swish, yeah, Obi.
00:53:14.880 --> 00:53:16.320
Yeah, that's pretty nails.
00:53:16.639 --> 00:53:20.960
Um, I didn't know how long like Connolly's been in LA for.
00:53:21.039 --> 00:53:25.440
I thought like he's like a true, he's like a child actor there with like Leo, wasn't he, or something?
00:53:25.599 --> 00:53:26.800
Oh, yeah, yes, yes, he was.
00:53:26.880 --> 00:53:29.920
Yeah, that's exactly they've known each other for 35 years.
00:53:30.559 --> 00:53:32.639
That's pretty sick, like they're just buddies.
00:53:32.880 --> 00:53:40.400
Yeah, they came up through Hollywood together, and like when Leo was getting all of his early gigs, like Titanic, I forget what else he did.
00:53:40.639 --> 00:53:48.960
Connolly was like 30 years old, and he had been grinding for different roles, different auditions, never got anything.
00:53:49.039 --> 00:53:50.079
He was ready to hang it up.
00:53:50.159 --> 00:53:57.440
He got to LA when he was 18, and like at 31 or 32, that entourage deal came in and he auditioned.
00:53:57.599 --> 00:54:00.480
He got the role for E, and the rest is history, man.
00:54:00.559 --> 00:54:01.360
That's crazy, isn't it?
00:54:01.440 --> 00:54:08.639
It's just crazy how everyone, no matter what walk of life you're in, it's not necessarily the same time as your buddy's time.
00:54:08.719 --> 00:54:13.039
But you're you're you're all gonna have your time if you stay at it long enough, but a lot of people quit.
00:54:13.199 --> 00:54:17.920
A lot of people quit a lot of people stop before they're there, and yeah, it's just right around the corner.
00:54:18.000 --> 00:54:25.280
It's like that meme you always see of that guy that that miner like digging, and he turns around and the pot of gold's right on the other side.
00:54:25.519 --> 00:54:35.199
Yeah, it's and that's the one thing when you're like you know, I'm sure he's sitting there and he's probably comparing himself to Leo too, and he's like, Fuck, like, what the fuck's wrong with me and stuff?
00:54:35.360 --> 00:54:38.719
And yeah, it's never you never know when you're gonna when you're gonna get that chance.
00:54:38.800 --> 00:54:42.159
And like, I don't know how much money is he still making from Entourage.
00:54:42.320 --> 00:54:45.360
Like, I still watch that show, and I've seen it 10 times.
00:54:45.599 --> 00:54:46.400
A hundred percent.
00:54:46.480 --> 00:54:49.920
Yeah, I mean, that literally made his entire career, you know.
00:54:50.000 --> 00:54:51.280
Like, it's just it's crazy.
00:54:51.360 --> 00:54:52.639
Like, was entourage?
00:54:52.719 --> 00:55:07.199
I mean, I in the height of Entourage, was it the biggest show at its time, or was it just the biggest show amongst us dude, dudes like us that wanted to live that life at 15?
00:55:07.280 --> 00:55:10.079
You know, we're like, Rock, if we make the NHL, this is how we want to do it.
00:55:10.159 --> 00:55:13.519
It's for sure the biggest show among guys like us, yeah.
00:55:13.679 --> 00:55:15.760
Yeah, uh, I don't know how big it was.
00:55:15.920 --> 00:55:17.039
Like, I know it was huge.
00:55:17.280 --> 00:55:18.800
I mean, they made a movie.
00:55:18.960 --> 00:55:23.280
I mean, they you don't make movies about TV shows unless a TV show is massive.
00:55:23.440 --> 00:55:28.559
Um, and you also HBO doesn't go eight seasons if it's not big either, right?
00:55:28.800 --> 00:55:30.800
So it had to have been really big.
00:55:30.960 --> 00:55:34.000
Like, not many TV shows make it eight seasons and a movie.
00:55:34.159 --> 00:55:36.000
I mean, that's big time.
00:55:36.239 --> 00:55:40.000
Yeah, no, I I I definitely I think it was it was I was just curious.
00:55:40.079 --> 00:55:42.800
Like, I was like I'd be curious to see those contracts, Jordo.
00:55:42.880 --> 00:55:48.960
Like, you know, all those like those friends actors, how much money they still make off the show and like Seinfeld.
00:55:49.119 --> 00:55:55.920
I wonder what that looks like for entrage, or if their deals were different, or if like one of the actors kind of signed a shitty deal.
00:55:56.159 --> 00:55:58.559
Uh yeah, fun to see those numbers.
00:55:58.960 --> 00:56:00.880
Yeah, I think they were, I don't know.
00:56:00.960 --> 00:56:04.719
Uh I forget like the last couple seasons when they were bringing in real cheddar.
00:56:04.800 --> 00:56:11.840
I don't know if it was like a million in an episode, or I mean you can look it up, I don't know if it was 500, but it was somewhere between 500 and a million, I think, per episode.
00:56:11.920 --> 00:56:14.000
So that's when they were making like their real cheddar.
00:56:14.159 --> 00:56:17.599
I think season one and two, they might have started off like 50 grand an episode.
00:56:17.679 --> 00:56:19.679
But I remember asking them like that night, too.
00:56:19.840 --> 00:56:22.400
I was like, How long did it take to film one episode?
00:56:22.480 --> 00:56:26.880
And they said he said like five to seven days, it would just grind it out, grind it out.
00:56:27.039 --> 00:56:30.719
Oh, that's crazy! And you know, they're in the killed it though.
00:56:30.800 --> 00:56:31.920
That show is flawless.
00:56:32.159 --> 00:56:32.719
I know, yeah.
00:56:32.800 --> 00:56:34.880
Doug Ellen, he wrote the entire thing.
00:56:35.039 --> 00:56:36.079
Pretty crazy.
00:56:36.400 --> 00:56:42.800
So sick, so sick, but also in other news, it was announced a couple weeks ago, but we went off.
00:56:43.360 --> 00:56:45.840
Joseph Chestnut had a scare.
00:56:46.159 --> 00:56:50.320
He was uh involved in a bar fight outside of Indianapolis.
00:56:50.639 --> 00:57:01.519
Sounds like he slapped a man, and that man took offense, or I guess not a liking to Joey's love tap, and ultimately was ordered some probation.
00:57:01.760 --> 00:57:02.880
Uh, but good news.
00:57:02.960 --> 00:57:04.800
Uh the 4th of July is saved.
00:57:04.960 --> 00:57:13.440
The judge in the local county there in Indianapolis ruled that Joseph Chestnut will be able to travel to Coney Island for the 4th of July.
00:57:13.519 --> 00:57:17.599
Uh, so we had a little bit of a scare there for all the dog lovers and ball knowers.
00:57:17.760 --> 00:57:26.239
Uh Joey Chestnut will be going for his 18th, 18th win at Nathan's hot dog eating competition.
00:57:26.320 --> 00:57:40.880
So uh Joey Chestnut sounded like he was just absolutely licked, ended up slapping a dude that maybe was asking for a picture or an autograph, and uh found himself in hot water once the other individual found out who he was.
00:57:41.039 --> 00:57:49.360
So uh Joey, ankle bracelet on, will be in the guts of Coney Island showing out for the people of America.
00:57:50.000 --> 00:57:54.400
Must have just been so buckled or something, just got snappy with the guy.
00:57:54.559 --> 00:57:55.920
The guy must have deserved it though.
00:57:56.000 --> 00:57:56.960
It was for a slap.
00:57:57.119 --> 00:58:02.159
Like you actually get thrown in you get thrown in jail or prison for slapping someone nowadays.
00:58:02.320 --> 00:58:03.119
I didn't know that.
00:58:03.360 --> 00:58:04.000
Yeah, I don't know.
00:58:04.079 --> 00:58:06.239
I mean, uh, I guess it's such a loose term.
00:58:06.320 --> 00:58:08.079
Like, how hard did he slap them?
00:58:08.159 --> 00:58:09.119
Was it open hand?
00:58:09.199 --> 00:58:10.239
Was it backhand?
00:58:10.400 --> 00:58:12.320
Yeah, how much sauce did it have on it?
00:58:12.400 --> 00:58:22.159
There's just so many questions I have for Joey, but it's good to see Joseph worked in good faith with the community of Indianapolis and because that a lot of shit happens in that city, man.
00:58:22.320 --> 00:58:24.800
Like, let look at Mark Sanchez, he fucking almost killed a guy.
00:58:25.039 --> 00:58:26.320
Something about that city, man.
00:58:26.400 --> 00:58:28.159
I gotta I gotta stay away from Indy.
00:58:28.400 --> 00:58:29.119
Jesus Christ.
00:58:29.199 --> 00:58:32.719
Yeah, don't go to Indy with the with the fight strap off.
00:58:32.800 --> 00:58:34.639
You might end up in some real hot weather.
00:58:34.960 --> 00:58:36.559
What's the story on Sanchez?
00:58:36.639 --> 00:58:39.519
Is he is he out of that, or is he still kind of battling?
00:58:40.000 --> 00:58:41.599
I don't know on Mark Marcus.
00:58:41.679 --> 00:58:42.079
I'm not sure.
00:58:42.159 --> 00:58:43.360
I mean, he's definitely laying low.
00:58:43.440 --> 00:58:46.480
I don't I don't know what criminal charges or if he's gonna go to jail.
00:58:46.559 --> 00:58:48.079
I haven't heard anything on that front.
00:58:48.239 --> 00:58:58.400
The best part about Mark Sanchez and what he did was two weeks later it was Thanksgiving, and he posted a picture of his family on Instagram, didn't turn the comments off, actually pretty nails.
00:58:58.559 --> 00:59:12.480
So he let people just absolutely roast them, and he just the caption was something along the lines of there's a lot to be thankful for, and he just had everyone just roasting them in his comments, like bro, you can turn those off if you're really gonna post a picture.
00:59:12.639 --> 00:59:13.760
I thought that was pretty good.
00:59:13.920 --> 00:59:14.800
All press is good.
00:59:14.880 --> 00:59:16.880
Press, it is, it is, you know.
00:59:17.039 --> 00:59:19.280
I wasn't talking about Mark Sanchez before that.
00:59:19.440 --> 00:59:20.159
No, I wasn't.
00:59:20.239 --> 00:59:22.719
I I kind of forgot who he was, to be honest.
00:59:23.039 --> 00:59:25.519
Yeah, great quarterback, great quarterback.
00:59:25.760 --> 00:59:32.880
How many guys do you think bring their golf clubs this year, fully knowing we are not golfing?
00:59:33.039 --> 00:59:35.440
I mean, we had two or three that one year in Nashville.
00:59:35.519 --> 00:59:38.480
I are we over the point of of selling the golf trip.
00:59:38.559 --> 00:59:40.559
I I think we're all mature enough now, right?
00:59:40.639 --> 00:59:42.800
It's like ah, we're just gonna want in to drink, it's Chicago.
00:59:43.039 --> 00:59:46.480
Yeah, maybe maybe the maybe we can just be more honest about it now.
00:59:46.639 --> 00:59:48.400
Yeah, maybe one set.
00:59:48.559 --> 00:59:49.280
Yeah, one set.
00:59:49.599 --> 00:59:52.239
It'd be so funny to see a couple of guys coming with them.
00:59:52.480 --> 00:59:53.199
It'd be great.
00:59:53.280 --> 00:59:55.039
Yep, it would it would be really funny.
00:59:55.199 --> 00:59:56.159
I I always enjoyed.
00:59:56.400 --> 01:00:04.559
I was just thinking about bringing my own wrenches to the trip because a lot of times I just bring my clubs to places and I don't even end up using them.
01:00:04.639 --> 01:00:07.440
I remember like two years ago where I brought them to Edmonton.
01:00:07.599 --> 01:00:19.599
We were supposed to do a sandbagger up there, didn't play, brought them through Vegas because we hot routed to Vegas for a night, and then ended up here and my wrenches lugged like 5,000 miles and flying around with wrenches.
01:00:20.000 --> 01:00:20.960
How big is that?
01:00:21.119 --> 01:00:22.480
I'm in like four different airports.
01:00:22.559 --> 01:00:25.440
I gotta pick up my wrenches, and I have not played around.
01:00:26.719 --> 01:00:28.000
They never left the bag.
01:00:28.159 --> 01:00:34.079
No, they never left the heart, and you know, you some of you take them out all the time, and your fucking putter is like bent and half.
01:00:34.239 --> 01:00:35.760
Oh, yeah, it's the worst.
01:00:36.000 --> 01:00:36.800
It's the worst.
01:00:36.960 --> 01:00:37.920
That's hilarious.
01:00:38.320 --> 01:00:44.400
It is the worst, but Azzo, we're gonna get to this week's People's Insider term of the week, fella.
01:00:44.639 --> 01:00:53.360
I don't think I've used this one, but folks, this week's People's Insider term of the week is a unique one, and here it is.
01:00:53.599 --> 01:00:59.039
This week's People's Insider term of the week is Inter League.
01:00:59.280 --> 01:01:07.199
Now, before you call me an absolute douchebag and say I'm some frat guy, this and that, I'm 48 years old.
01:01:07.280 --> 01:01:09.039
I'm pretty much out of the game, as it is.
01:01:09.199 --> 01:01:17.679
But Ozzo, there is one thing for all the younger sailors out there, and especially guys that travel in and around North America.
01:01:17.920 --> 01:01:24.960
And especially at this time of year, when bachelor trips get going, you have golf trips, you're just kind of buzzing all over the place.
01:01:25.119 --> 01:01:31.199
Hockey players, you finally got a little time to travel, the sun is out, you're popping and weaving and going to different spots.
01:01:31.280 --> 01:01:36.880
So whether you're going on vacation, you're going north to Canada to enjoy maybe the Grand Prix weekend.
01:01:36.960 --> 01:01:41.440
Maybe you're just going up to Toronto to see a concert at Budweiser Amphitheater.
01:01:41.519 --> 01:01:46.239
Or maybe you're going down into the guts of Mexico, going to Cabo or Tulum.
01:01:46.320 --> 01:01:50.320
I don't know what you're doing, but if you're a single guy, we call this inner league.
01:01:50.480 --> 01:01:58.320
Now, inner league Azzo is referred to in layman's terms as playing in a different league, playing out of jurisdiction.
01:01:58.480 --> 01:02:03.360
If you're in the National League, well, the American League, there's two sides of the coin in baseball.
01:02:03.519 --> 01:02:04.960
Now we're talking baseball.
01:02:05.199 --> 01:02:06.000
This is that.
01:02:06.159 --> 01:02:09.039
So when you step out of your own realm, you step out of your own league.
01:02:09.119 --> 01:02:15.199
And if you're an American kid and you're going up to Canada or you're going down to Mexico, it's considered inner league.
01:02:15.280 --> 01:02:20.400
It's the same game of baseball, yet, hey, we're in a different country here, man.
01:02:20.559 --> 01:02:22.480
We got to play a little bit different ball.
01:02:22.639 --> 01:02:26.639
In the old days, well, pitchers they couldn't hit in the American League.
01:02:26.719 --> 01:02:28.320
The National League, you had to bat.
01:02:28.400 --> 01:02:33.119
So you have to adjust your game accordingly, depending on where you're going.
01:02:33.360 --> 01:02:37.840
Inner league, usually only a couple weeks out of the summer, you get to play it.
01:02:38.000 --> 01:02:39.599
So you have to take advantage of it.
01:02:39.679 --> 01:02:46.639
You have to realize that there's a different set of rules, it's a little bit different of a game, but the same time you're playing the same sports.
01:02:46.719 --> 01:02:52.400
So, Oswald, this is this week's People's Insider term of the week, despite it being baseball.
01:02:52.800 --> 01:02:59.440
My friend, you're stepping out to a different league and you have to adjust to the diamond you're playing in accordingly.
01:02:59.920 --> 01:03:00.800
I love that one.
01:03:00.880 --> 01:03:02.239
I haven't heard that one, Giardo.
01:03:02.320 --> 01:03:04.480
I'm actually it's interly.
01:03:04.639 --> 01:03:06.159
Yeah, we're playing Interly this week, fellas.
01:03:06.320 --> 01:03:06.960
Uh, what does that mean?
01:03:07.039 --> 01:03:09.440
Uh yeah, we're slide to a different country.
01:03:09.760 --> 01:03:13.760
It's still baseball, but uh we're playing a different game this week, fellas.
01:03:14.719 --> 01:03:21.119
Still baseball, different, different fields, different rules a little bit, but we know what we gotta do.
01:03:21.519 --> 01:03:23.039
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
01:03:23.199 --> 01:03:26.719
So that is this week's People's Insider term of the week.
01:03:26.880 --> 01:03:30.000
Azzo Stanley Cup final starting up Tuesday.
01:03:30.079 --> 01:03:34.320
We got the basketball association starting up, I believe, Wednesday.
01:03:34.400 --> 01:03:35.679
I have to check the books there.
01:03:35.760 --> 01:03:44.320
I'm I'm sure they're not doing it on the same night, but and then we got the golf trip, the hardest three days in sports looking at us right down the chin.
01:03:44.559 --> 01:03:49.360
Last, I'll ask on that front, Paul Ledou, uh confirmed, not booked.
01:03:49.519 --> 01:03:51.440
Did you see any of these guys this past weekend?
01:03:51.599 --> 01:03:58.880
Shane Gershic, um, do we have any members um that you've been boots on the ground with and have had chin-to-chin conversation with?
01:03:59.119 --> 01:04:00.960
I haven't seen any of them.
01:04:01.119 --> 01:04:04.800
Um last I heard Gersich coming in Friday.
01:04:05.039 --> 01:04:05.519
Nice.
01:04:05.679 --> 01:04:07.920
I actually did talk to Dewey today.
01:04:08.000 --> 01:04:14.559
It's Sunday, May 31st, and Dewey told me he's unsure on what he's gonna do.
01:04:14.800 --> 01:04:18.320
Nice, so I told him you didn't have to tell me that.
01:04:18.480 --> 01:04:25.920
I was gonna ask you on Wednesday because I know you haven't you haven't made up your mind until Wednesday every single year, all 10 years.
01:04:26.079 --> 01:04:32.880
Yep, so it'd be it's a waste of time for me to ask you what you're up to until Wednesday, and that's when I'll check on him.
01:04:33.440 --> 01:04:35.760
Um, but no, I haven't seen any of them.
01:04:35.840 --> 01:04:37.679
I think Gersh's coming in Friday.
01:04:37.840 --> 01:04:42.880
I know um, unfortunately, Luke Johnson is out, he's got prior commitments up north, I think.
01:04:42.960 --> 01:04:49.119
And then um, yeah, Tomer, Tomer's uh I don't know if he's gonna be able to pull it off.
01:04:49.280 --> 01:04:50.639
Soul train, I don't know.
01:04:50.880 --> 01:04:54.400
Yeah, yeah, it's and Kajula will be missed as well.
01:04:54.800 --> 01:04:58.159
But he's we understand that Kajula is one out of three, right?
01:04:58.239 --> 01:05:02.079
He just plays too hard and ends up hurting himself.
01:05:02.239 --> 01:05:06.559
Um, we've seen him on stretchers, we've seen him leave the ice, we've seen him at parties.
01:05:06.639 --> 01:05:08.079
Uh, we know he will be back.
01:05:08.320 --> 01:05:13.599
So um, young Drake, if you are listening to this, we uh we'll keep you in our thoughts.
01:05:13.920 --> 01:05:18.159
Ste, I saw him, he was down here in AZ for a couple weeks.
01:05:18.239 --> 01:05:20.639
I think he's back in Madison now, but it was it was good seeing him.
01:05:21.039 --> 01:05:22.000
I don't know, it was funny.
01:05:22.079 --> 01:05:26.000
He was thinking he was gonna fly from Madison to Chicago, and Nick's like, dude, just drive with me.
01:05:26.079 --> 01:05:28.880
Like, you don't you're gonna fly to yeah, what is that like?
01:05:29.039 --> 01:05:30.400
Isn't that like two hours?
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Yeah, well, I'm saying, yeah, it's probably like a it's like it's like a 22-minute flight.
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But the thing is you land at O'Hare and then you could get you could get stuck in traffic, and now it's another hour and a half, so you might as well just drive at the right time.
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It's gonna be you know even quicker.
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It's like two hours driving, isn't it, or something like that?
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Oh, yeah, yeah, it's like two hours, maybe.
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Yeah, you gotta drive.
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You got I mean, I thought about it, but then it's gonna be nice to hop on that bird Sunday.
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Like it's six like you're coming from Minneapolis, you got a six hour drive.
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Drive like that's that six hour drive on Thursday, easy.
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Six hour drive on Sunday.
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Oh that sucks.
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Yeah, you might think about putting her in the ditch.
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No, you would for sure.
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Yeah, you round the you round 94 right around Toma, and you just said uh the like just take the Wisconsin Dells, just take me out.
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I'll run right into the fucking Kalahari.
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I don't give a shit.
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That toilet bowl.
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Yeah, that's the nice thing about driving, though.
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You got a chance to stop it in the you know Wisconsin Dells, maybe hit a few water slides.
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Yeah, grabbing some beers.
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Grab some beers on the way down and hit some water slides, be so sick.
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Oh, yeah.
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Oh, give yourself a concussion on the master blaster and just head out.
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Yeah, not even thinking perfectly.
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Oh man, that's great.
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Well, Azzo, always fun going tape to tape with you, brother.
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We will see you in the chin of Shy Town Thursday, ladies' night in the guts, meat and cheese night.
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Uh hits a little different when bark time's five in the morning in Chicago.
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So uh it's just funny uh trying to line up a dinner or something.
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You know, he's still 10 years later, just not ready for the dinner yet.
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But eating is cheating, as we know.
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So Ozzo, that was episode 120, live and five, with the captain Gage Ozzo Osmus, Jay Swish.
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Folks, you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.
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We out, baby.
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Woo!
